Patient Alert™ to detect ICD lead failure: efficacy, limitations, and implications for future algorithms
Author(s) -
Dirk Vollmann,
Ali Erdoğan,
E. Himmrich,
Jörg Neuzner,
Daniel Becker,
Christina UnterbergBuchwald,
Johannes Sperzel
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
ep europace
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1532-2092
pISSN - 1099-5129
DOI - 10.1093/europace/eul023
Subject(s) - medicine , lead (geology) , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , cardiac resynchronization therapy , complication , heart failure , ejection fraction , geomorphology , geology
An algorithm that alerts implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patients, in case of abnormal lead impedance (Patient Alerttrade mark, Medtronic), may help to recognize lead dysfunction. We aimed to determine the utility of Patient Alert for ICD lead-failure detection in a prospective study.
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