High pacing impedances: Are you overtorquing your leads?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 883-891

  Laske, Timothy G ^a   Vieau, Sarah A ^a   Skadsberg, Nicholas D ^a   Iaizzo, Paul A ^b,c,d,e  

^a MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrium; Electrophysiology; Endocardium; Impedance; Pacing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCARDIUM; ENDOSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPEDANCE; NONHUMAN; P WAVE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PARAMETER; SWINE; TORQUE; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART PACING; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SWINE; TORQUE;

EID: 33644693962     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00192.x     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Siegmund JB, Wilson JH, Lattner SE, Granneman K, Johnson R. Impedance of pacemaker leads: Correlation of different methods. PACE 1996 19 : 90 94.
2. Benzing G, III., Iltis R, Helmsworth JA, Schreiber T, Kaplan S. Measurement of the ohmic electrode-tissue contact resistance and the voltage applied to myocardium. J Biomed Eng 1980 2 : 3 8.
3. Schuchert A, van Langen H, Michels K, Meinertz T. Low stimulation impedance in pacemaker patients with cardiac diseases. The Thera Pacemaker Study Group. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1996 121 : 1046 1049.
4. Sharif MN, Wyse DG, Rothschild JM, Gillis AM. Changes in pacing lead impedance over time predict lead failure. Am J Cardiol 1998 82 : 600 603.
5. Raymond RD, Nanian KB. Insulation failure with bipolar polyurethane pacing leads. PACE 1984 7 : 378 380.
6. Hidden-Lucet F, Hartung WM, McTeague KK, Walter PF, Langberg JJ. Effects of high energy shocks on pacing impedance during transvenous ICD implantation. PACE 1996 19 : 752 757.
7. Platia EV, Brinker JA. Time course of transvenous pacemaker stimulation impedance, capture threshold, and electrogram amplitude. PACE 1986 9 : 620 625.
8. Schuchert A, Kuck KH. Effects of local steroid elution on chronic pacing threshold and impedance of endocardial pacemaker leads. Cardiology 1993 83 : 240 243.
9. Tyers GF, Brownlee RR, Hughes HC Jr., Shaffer CW, Williams EH, Kao RL. Myocardial stimulation impedance: The effects of electrode, physiological, and stimulus variables. Ann Thorac Surg 1979 27 : 63 69.
10. Schuchert A, Cappato R, Kuck KH, Meinertz T. Reliability and variability of impedance measured by real-time telemetry. PACE 1996 19 : 265 271.
11. Danilovic D, Ohm OJ. Pacing impedance variability in tined steroid eluting leads. PACE 1998 21 : 1356 1363.
12. Irnich W. Stimulation electrodes. In : Schaldach M, Furman S, Hein F, Thull R (eds.) Advances in Pacemaker Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Valley Publishing, 1975, 247 253.
13. Chinchoy E, Soule CL, Houlton AJ, Gallagher WJ, Hjelle MA, Laske TG, Morissette J, Iaizzo PA. Isolated four-chamber working swine heart model. Ann Thorac Surg 2000 70 : 1607 1614.
14. Hill AJ, Laske TG, Coles JA, et al. In vitro studies of human hearts. Ann Thorac Surg 2005 79 : 168 177.
15. Laske TG, Skadsberg ND, Iaizzo PA. Comparative in vivo and ex vivo pacing and sensing performance study using an isolated four-chamber working swine heart model. [Abstract] IEEE Trans 2002 A.6.1 : 4 3.