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Incidence of Defibrillator Shocks After Elective Generator Exchange Following Uneventful First Battery Life

BACKGROUND: A significant number of implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator (ICD) patients do not experience shocks after ICD implant. Elective generator exchange (GE) has been associated with increased risk of infection and ICD lead failure. There is a paucity of contemporary data reporting on shock...

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Autores principales: Merchant, Faisal M., Jones, Paul, Wehrenberg, Scott, Lloyd, Michael S., Saxon, Leslie A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25385346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.114.001289