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Interference Between Pacemaker and Video Capsule Endoscopy
Author(s) -
GUYOMAR YVES,
VANDEVILLE LAURENT,
HEULS SEBASTIEN,
COVIAUX FRANÇOIS,
GRAUX PIERRE,
CORNAERT PIERRE,
FILOCHE BERNARD
Publication year - 2004
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.1540-8159.2004.00631.x
Subject(s) - medicine , capsule endoscopy , capsule , cardiac pacemaker , endoscopy , surgery , radiology , cardiology , botany , biology
The wireless capsule video endoscopy is useful in patients with occult blood loss, but is contraindicated in patients with cardiac pacemaker (PM). No case of interference has been published. We report the case of a patient with a PM implanted in the abdominal wall. After capsule ingestion, cardiac monitoring showed no modification of the PM compartment (VOO, unipolar mode) but the capsule recording reveal more than 3 hours of loss of image. The wireless capsule endoscopy is safe in patients with PMs in VOO mode. Nevertheless important interference was noted in the recording when the capsule was near the PM.