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When ICD Lead Failure Complicates Ventricular Arrhythmia Treatment

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A 62-year-old woman presented with intractable VT/VF precipitated by PVCs. Extreme externalization of multiple conductors of a Riata® ICD lead were thought to be precipitating the ventricular arrhythmias. The conductors were percutaneously removed as to avoid complete lead extraction.

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This work was supported in part by the Mark Marchlinski EP Research and Education Fund.

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  1. Electrophysiology Section, Cardiovascular Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Robert D. Schaller, Jeffrey S. Arkles, Michael P. Riley & Andrew E. Epstein

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  1. N. IH 35 3000, St. David’s Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA

    Andrea Natale

  2. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Paul J. Wang

  3. Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Austin, TX, USA

    Amin Al-Ahmad

  4. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    N. A. Mark Estes

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Schaller, R.D., Arkles, J.S., Riley, M.P., Epstein, A.E. (2020). When ICD Lead Failure Complicates Ventricular Arrhythmia Treatment. In: Natale, A., Wang, P., Al-Ahmad, A., Estes, N. (eds) Cardiac Electrophysiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28533-3_2

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