Implantable cardiac defibrillator lead failure or myopotential oversensing? An approach to the diagnosis of noise on lead electrograms

Europace

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 914-917

  Kowalski, Marcin ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a   Wood, Mark A ^a   Friedman, Peter L ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CAPE COD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Oversensing of myopotentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; ELECTROGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NOISE; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ARTIFACTS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 48749106819     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eun167     Document Type: Article

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