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Sudden Pacemaker Failure
Author(s) -
ELMAYERGI NADER,
JASSAL DAVINDER S.,
SINHA SACH,
LIEBRECHT KERRY,
SEIFER COLETTE
Publication year - 2009
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.1540-8159.2009.02488.x
Subject(s) - medicine , implant , cardiology , surgery
Two cases of sudden pacemaker failure due to fractured wires supplying power to the generator are described. Both devices were Kappa KD703 (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) implanted in a prepectoral subcutaneous pocket. In 2002, Medtronic issued an advisory regarding Kappa 700/600 devices. A number of these devices, all subpectoral implants, had presented with intermittent or no output due to fractured wires supplying power to the devices, leading to recommendations to replace susceptible devices in pacemaker‐dependent patients. These two cases may warrant extension of this advisory to include all these devices, regardless of implant location.