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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:1380-1381
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Brief Communication

Electromagnetic interaction between an axial left ventricular assist device and an implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Farhad Bakhtiary, MD*, Panagiotis Therapidis, MD, Mirela Scherer, MD, Omer Dzemali, MD, Anton Moritz, MD, PhD, Peter Kleine, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery of Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Received for publication October 30, 2007; revisions received January 17, 2008; accepted for publication February 1, 2008.

* Address for reprints: Farhad Bakhtiary, MD, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (Email: farhad@bakhtiary.de).

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As the prevalence of advanced heart failure continues to increase, implantation of the left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has become an excellent bridge to cardiac transplantation, recovery, or other future alternative therapies.1,2Go There is some evidence that LVAD therapy itself promotes new onset of ventricular arrhythmias in this patient group.1Go Implantation of an implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) is one treatment choice. There is little information concerning device–device interaction between the LVAD and ICD.2Go

This report describes the case of a patient with intraoperative interaction between the LVAD and a newly implanted left-sided ICD, which was ultimately solved by right-sided reimplantation.

Clinical Summary

A 54-year-old man was admitted to our institution in November 2006 with medically unresponsive end-stage heart failure resulting . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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