Intermittent output failure of a VVI device due to the disintegration of the generator.
The metal case and the header of a Biovallees Coralite 247 pacemaker fell apart in a patient resulting in syncope due to myopotential inhibition. Upon recalling our patients with that type of device, we found a similar technological failure in 11 of 16 of them. This finding warrants a consideration for recalling that Biovallees device.
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2nd Medical Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Semmelweiss University, Szabolcs Str 33-35, Budapest, Hungary. bohm@freemail.hu
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D000368:Aged; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D004868:Equipment Failure; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011358:Product Surveillance, Postmarketing; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology