UNLABELLED 83 pacemaker (PM)/14 implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) autopsied patients, predominantly males, deceased 4.0±3.0/2.8±2.5 years after implantation in hospital. Coronary artery disease was most frequent. Its consequences were more severe in ICD patients. Sclerotic and rheumatic heart changes were present in older PM patients group only. The immediate cause of death was mostl...

AANA Journal February 2009 Vol. 77, No. 1 29 There is little data currently available for the obstetric anesthetist to use as a reference for the anesthetic management of laboring women with automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (AICDs). This case report involves a parturient with an AICD and a history of serious cardiac events.The information contained in this case report may be us...

Introduction: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an opportunistic gram-negative rod emerging as a cause of various multidrug-resistant infections. Case Report: We report a case of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) pocket infection caused by S. maltophilia in an 85-year-old male. The patient recovered after ICD removal and antimicrobial therapy with ceftazidime. Conclusion: As ICD implan...

Sudden cardiac death continues to be a major health problem in the United States, accounting for approximately 400,000 deaths per year. The last 10 yrs have seen major advances in the primary and secondary prevention of this problem. In patients who have survived an episode of cardiac arrest, the AVID study conclusively established the superiority of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator o...

BACKGROUND Arrhythmias originating from the right ventricular outflow tract are generally considered benign but cases of cardiac arrest have been described, usually associated with polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or extrasystoles with short coupling intervals. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 54-year-old Caucasian woman with symptomatic right ventricular outflow tract arrhythmias...

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Survival After Shock Therapy in Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-Defibrillator Recipients According to Rhythm Shocked The ALTITUDE Survival by Rhythm Study Brian D. Powell, MD,* Leslie A. Saxon, MD,y John P. Boehmer, MD,z John D. Day, MD,x F. Roosevelt Gilliam III, MD,k Paul A. Heidenreich, MD, MS,{ Paul W. Jones, MS,# Matthew J. Rousseau, MS,# David ...

This editorial refers to ‘A simplified biventricular defibrillator with fixed long detection intervals reduces implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) interventions and heart failure hospitalizations in patients with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy implanted for primary prevention: the RELEVANT [Role of long dEtection window programming in patients with LEft VentriculAr dysfunction, Non-ische...