Thoracic impedance measurement in heart stimulation and cardiac arrhythmias.
Andrzej ZąbekKrzysztof BoczarEwa Nowosielska-ZąbekKatarzyna HolcmanMateusz UlmanJacek LelakowskiBarbara MałeckaPublished in: Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE (2020)
The electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is often a puzzling problem. The difficulty of the device function evaluation further increases in the presence of unfamiliar timing cycles and additional functions. We present an interesting ECG with a special function of a Biotronik ICD devices called the thoracic impedance monitoring, and demonstrate its behavior in a patient with atrial fibrillation, pacing beats, ventricular ectopic beats, and couple of ventricular beats. This report shows unexceptional occurrence of tricky ECG finding in patient with Biotronik ICDs.
Keyphrases
- atrial fibrillation
- catheter ablation
- heart failure
- left ventricular
- heart rate variability
- heart rate
- case report
- spinal cord
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- risk assessment
- left atrial
- left atrial appendage
- magnetic resonance
- magnetic resonance imaging
- oral anticoagulants
- computed tomography
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- direct oral anticoagulants
- mitral valve
- congenital heart disease
- dual energy