TY - JOUR
T1 - Reversible failure to sense ventricular tachycardia early after surgical implantation of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
AU - Glicksman, Frances L.
AU - Zaman, Liaqat
AU - Huikuri, Heikki V.
AU - Castellanos, Agustin
AU - Myerburg, Robert J.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida. This study was funded in part by grant ROI-HL 28130 and research training grant HL-07436 (Dr. Glicksman), both from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Huikuri is a Fogarty International Research Fellow in the Division of Cardiology, University of Miami, Florida. Manuscript received March 7, 1988; revised manuscript received and accepted May 26, 1988.
PY - 1988/10/1
Y1 - 1988/10/1
N2 - Failure to sense ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) is an important clinical problem associated with the use of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD). The causes reported have been the use of unipolar pacemakers in conjunction with the AICD and the variability of bipolar epicardial electrograms.1,2 The present report describes a patient whose AICD, after failing to sense VT following open-heart surgery, subsequently sensed it 6 weeks later.
AB - Failure to sense ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) is an important clinical problem associated with the use of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD). The causes reported have been the use of unipolar pacemakers in conjunction with the AICD and the variability of bipolar epicardial electrograms.1,2 The present report describes a patient whose AICD, after failing to sense VT following open-heart surgery, subsequently sensed it 6 weeks later.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9149(88)91239-8
DO - 10.1016/0002-9149(88)91239-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 3421189
AN - SCOPUS:0023784277
VL - 62
SP - 833
EP - 834
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
SN - 0002-9149
IS - 10 PART 1
ER -