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Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator in a 4‐Month‐Old Infant with Cardiac Arrest Associated with a Vascular Heart Tumor
Author(s) -
THØGERSEN ANNA MARGRETHE,
HELVIND MORTEN,
JENSEN TIM,
ANDERSEN HELLE,
JACOBSEN JOES RAMSØE,
CHEN XU
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2001.01699.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricular fibrillation , ventricle , cardiology , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , defibrillation
THØGERSEN, A.M., et al. : Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator in a 4‐Month‐Old Infant with Cardiac Arrest Associated with a Vascular Heart Tumor. A previously healthy male infant was resuscitated after spontaneous ventricular fibrillation at 9 weeks of age. Echocardiography revealed three tumors in the left ventricle not amenable to complete resection. Despite treatment with antiarrhythmic agents the ventricular arrhythmias continued. When the child was 4 months old and weighed 7 kg an ICD system was implanted using epicardial sense‐pacing leads and a superior vena caval lead as a subcutaneous defibrillator coil placed posterior on the left thorax. Shocks were delivered between the subcutaneous coil lead and the intraabdominally placed ICD can. This ICD array system has not been reported previously.