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Azygos vein lead implantation: a therapeutic option for elevated defibrillation threshold.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Camanho, Luiz Eduardo Montenegro Silva, Antônio Marciano Da Teixeira, Marco Antônio G. Junior, Luiz Antonio Inácio Oliveira Saad, Eduardo Benchimol Maia, Marcelo Da Costa |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | The evaluation of the defibrillation threshold (DFT) during the implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is an important stage of the procedure, as a high DFT can be found in up to 16% of patients. We report a patient with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) submitted to a biventricular ICD implantation. During the procedure, the patient showed a high DFT and showed to be resistant to usual therapeutic modalities. We opted for the azygos vein defibrillation lead implantation, with good resolution. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 22892700 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 98 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.scielo.br/pdf/abc/v98n6/en_17.pdf |
| Journal | Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |