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Spurious Detection of Ventricular Fibrillation By a Transvenous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator During Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
Author(s) -
RIZK ANTOINE B.,
CHANDLER JOHN P.,
SCHOENFELD MARK H.,
MARIEB MARK A.
Publication year - 1997
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.1540-8159.1997.tb04826.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , ventricular fibrillation , percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , shock (circulatory) , angioplasty , defibrillation , percutaneous , ventricular tachycardia
This case describes another example of inappropriate implantable defibrillator shock. We also show that this phenomenon resulted from electromagnetic current traveling down a coronary wire during coronary angioplasty.