LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A Lubbock cardiologist who previously paid more than a million dollars to settle federal drug prescribing allegations is facing new punishment from the Texas Medical Board.

Dr. Juan Kurdi, an interventional cardiologist in Lubbock, is accused of leaving a thin guidewire used in heart procedures inside a patient after a pacemaker surgery in 2022. According to the agreed order signed this month, a chest CT done right after the procedure showed the wire, but the board says Kurdi relied on a radiologist's report and did not review the images himself.

It was discovered a year later when the patient was in intensive care for septic shock from a urinary tract infection.