Runaway pacemaker: A forgotten phenomenon?

Europace

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 592-597

  Ortega, Daniel F ^a   Sammartino, M Victoria ^a   Pellegrino, Graciela M M ^a   Barja, Luis D ^a   Albina, Gaston ^a   Segura, Eliseo V ^a   Balado, Roberto ^a   Laiño, Ruben ^a   Giniger, Alberto G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CARDIOVASCULAR DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Battery depletion; Failure of capture; Runaway

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART PACING; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; SPIKE WAVE; SYNCOPE;

AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 27144557482     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eupc.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. S. Furman D. Escher Principles and techniques of cardiac pacing 1970 Harper and Row New York, NY p. 101-102
2. H. Mickley C. Anderson H. Nielson Runaway pacemaker: A still existing complication and therapeutic guidelines Clin Cardiol 12 1989 412-414
3. E. Solow B. Bacharach E.K. Chung Runaway pacemaker. Unpredictable pacemaker failure Arch Intern Med 139 1979 1190-1191
4. C.M. Carpenter J. Galvin M. Guy et al. Runaway pacemaker in an implantable cardioverter defibrillator J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 9 1998 1008-1011
5. C.A. Katzenburg F. Marcus R.S. Heusinkveld et al. Pacemaker failure due to radiation therapy Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 5 1982 156-159
6. P. Vijayaraman K. Vaidya S.G. Kim J.N. Gross K.J. Ferrick E. Palma et al. Runaway pulse generator malfunction resulting from undetected battery depletion Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 25 2002 220-222
7. R. Posse I.J. Bein R. D'Aiutolo Arritmias cardíacas en pacientes con marcapaso electrónico implantado Rev Arg Cardiol 34 1967 47-49
8. R. D'Aiutolo R. Posse Tratamiento de las arritmias cardíacas 1968 Cabrera y Rey editores BsAs Argentina p. 69-71
9. A. Bohm L. Hajdu A. Pinter G. Duray L. Preda Runaway syndrome and intermittent nonoutput as manifestations of end of life of a VVI pacemaker Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 23 2000 2143-2144
10. J. Griffin H. Smithline J. Cook Runaway pacemaker: A case report and review J Emerg Med 19 2000 177-181