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Spurious Discharges Due to Late Insulation Break in Endocardial Sensing Leads for Cardioverter Defibrillators
Author(s) -
PETERS ROBERT W.,
FOSTER ANDREW H.,
SHOROFSKY STEPHEN R.,
NOLAN DEBORAH A.,
GOLD MICHAEL R.
Publication year - 1995
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 - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1995.tb02549.x
Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , cardiology , lead (geology) , spurious relationship , geomorphology , machine learning , computer science , geology
Despite their similarity to permanent pacemaker leads, endocardial sensing leads for Cardioverter defibrillators have a relatively high failure rate. We describe four patients with endocardial rate sensing leads who developed inappropriate discharges 10–30 months after implantation due to small breaks in the lead insulation. This problem may become increasingly common as the number of Cardioverter defibrillator implants with transvenous leads continues to grow and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of late sensing failure or inappropriate device discharges.