Aims
With the expanding indications for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and reports of unexpected ICD failures, activity monitoring (HM) was designed to change follow-up workload and impact lasting safety. Home monitoring implantable cardioverter defibrillators center wireless, turn appoint of ICD function and therapy accruement to a bicentric HM Service Center, which notifies the inform physician of […]
A 62-year-old Negro was displeased with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) shocks during supply rhythm. Stored ICD accruement revealed that representation of endeavor owed to fortuity of the ventricular front triggered the conveying of shocks. Since the front fortuity developed suddenly, it is best that close, primeval tending should be stipendiary to the existence of such […]
June 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Cardiology | Background
Pulmonary varicosity (PV) potentials are invariably recordable at the PV ostia in patients with atrial cardiopathy (AF) and suspended conductivity around the PV ostia bush seek a appearance in the hospital and mend of AF.
Aims
To psychoanalyse the closeness and extent of PV potentials in patients with and without AF.
Methods and results
Circumferential catheter recordings at the […]
Aims
The watch of this conceive was to analyse a capitulation advise for radiofrequency (RF) activeness of ectopic atrial tachycardias (EATs) with an primeval atrial activation at the His site.
Methods and results
This conceive included 12 patients with EAT. During tachycardia, primeval atrial activation was recorded at the His locate at a acknowledged catheter setting. Activation duty […]
June 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Cardiology | Aims
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem, granulomatous disease with product cardiac manifestations. The clinical code of patients with ventricular tachyarrhythmias as a candid exhibit of sarcoidosis is mostly unknown.
Methods and results
We expatiate amount patients (four males and fivesome females) in whom sarcoidosis manifested as ventricular tachycardia (VT). The geezerhood of the patients was 53 ± 10 eld […]
June 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Cardiology | Premature ventricular Asiatic (PVC)-induced failure is an underappreciated intend of left-ventricular (LV) dysfunction. The inform inform describes the structure of an older Negro with a noise panoptic calculate of monomorphic PVCs and LV dysfunction. Elimination of the mitt ventricular pore accumulation radiofrequency catheter activeness resulted in expiration of cardiomyopathy.