title: Spurious detection of ventricular fibrillation by a transvenous implantable cardioverter defibrillator during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
abstract: This case describes another example of inappropriate implantable defibrillator shock. We also show that this phenomenon resulted from electromagnetic current traveling down a coronary wire during coronary angioplasty.
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Rizk
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Chandler
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Schoenfeld
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Marieb
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation; D016477:Artifacts; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D017097:Electric Impedance; D004562:Electrocardiography; D055590:Electromagnetic Phenomena; D004867:Equipment Design; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy