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Cardioverter Discharges Following Sensing of Electrical Artifact Due to Fluid Penetration in the Connector Port
Author(s) -
HIEF CHRISTINE,
PODCZECK ANDREA,
FROHNER KLAUS,
NURNBERG MICHAEL,
KALTENBRUNNER WILHELM,
VEIT FRANZ,
STEINBACH KONRAD
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.tb06747.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricular fibrillation , penetration (warfare) , cardiology , coronary artery disease , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , defibrillation , artifact (error) , fibrillation , cable gland , atrial fibrillation , electrical engineering , operations research , neuroscience , engineering , biology
We report a unique case of fluid penetration, 3 months after implantation, in the connector port of an automatic implantable Cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) with transvenous subcutaneous lead system. The patient had coronary artery disease and recurrent episodes of ventricular fibrillation, the fluid caused electrical signals interpreted as ventricular fibrillation by the device, which triggered shock delivery .