Preventing overdiagnosis of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead fractures using device diagnostics

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 57, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 2330-2339

  Swerdlow, Charles D ^a   Sachanandani, Haresh ^b   Gunderson, Bruce D ^b   Ousdigian, Kevin T ^b   Hjelle, Mark ^b   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

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

Author keywords

defibrillators; implantable cardioverter defibrillator lead fracture; lead failure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR LEAD FRACTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE;

ALGORITHMS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS;

EID: 79957981981     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.12.042     Document Type: Article

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