Saba Samir, Jain Sandeep, Bazaz Raveen, Schwartzman David
Electrophysiology Section, Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-2582, USA.
J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2009 May;20(5):564-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01365.x. Epub 2008 Nov 21.
With the increase in complexity of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), the reliability of these devices has been put in question in recent years. We report on 3 patients implanted with the Boston Scientific Vitality 2 EL DR (n = 2) and the Prizm 2 DR (n = 1) ICD who exhibited a malfunction in the stored cardiac electrograms from arrhythmic events, manifesting as a time shift in stored markers compared to the stored electrograms.