Alzand Bsn, Phlips Tje, Willems R
Department of Cardiology, Glorieux General Hospital, Ronse, Belgium ; Department of Cardiology, OLV General Hospital, Aalst, Belgium ; Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J. 2014 May 25;14(3):157-60. doi: 10.1016/s0972-6292(16)30757-4. eCollection 2014 May.
A 50-year-old male with a CRT defibrillator received inappropriate ICD shocks due to T-wave oversensing. Decreasing the sensitivity to avoid T wave oversensing was not an option due to a suboptimal R-wave sensing amplitude. We decided to re-plug the LV lead in the RV port and the RV lead in the LV port. This however led to intermittent phrenic nerve stimulation due to mandatory bipolar (tip-ring) or unipolar (tip-can) pacing on the LV-lead from the RV port. Re-intervention was necessary with the implantation of an additional pacing/sensing RV lead. A software programmable choice to switch sensing and tachycardia detection from RV to LV lead could be a valuable feature in future CRT devices.