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3334774

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-1-21
pubmed:abstractText
This article describes the implantation of an automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator in a 69-year-old man with coronary artery disease and recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia without the need for a thoracotomy/sternotomy and epicardial electrodes. The patient underwent serial electrophysiological evaluation that revealed drug-refractory ventricular tachycardia. Surgical ablation was considered and rejected due to advanced, severe, pulmonary disease. A triple electrode system using two transvenous catheter electrodes and a submuscular patch electrode in the left midaxillary line was employed. A single shock was delivered simultaneously over two spatially distinct current pathways and reproducibly defibrillated ventricular fibrillation with energies less than or equal to 10 J. The automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator was implanted in the anterior abdominal wall and demonstrated reproducible termination of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0098-7484
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
259
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
69-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Implantation of a cardioverter/defibrillator without thoracotomy using a triple electrode system.
pubmed:affiliation
Fannie E. Rippel Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, NJ 07112.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports