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Inadequate ICD Discharges Due to Diaphragmatic Electromyopotential Oversensing as the First Sign of Right Ventricular Lead Perforation
Author(s) -
WIEGAND UWE K. H.,
WILKE IRIS,
BONNEMEIER HENDRIK,
EBERHARDT FRANK,
BODE FRANK
Publication year - 2006
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.1540-8159.2006.00511.x
Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , complication , cardiology , perforation , diaphragmatic breathing , lead (geology) , sign (mathematics) , metallurgy , geology , mathematical analysis , punching , materials science , alternative medicine , mathematics , pathology , geomorphology
Right ventricular lead perforation, when acute, is a rare but potentially life‐threatening complication of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy. We report about a patient with early lead perforation presenting with repetitive ICD discharges due to oversensing of diaphragmatic electromyopotentials and describe the management of this complication.