title: Lead interaction: rare cause of oversensing during implantation procedure of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator system.
abstract: A variety of etiologies can cause erroneous detection in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICDs). Interaction between two endocardial leads is rare and uncommon in causing electrical noise. During a reimplantation procedure of an ICD system in a 68-year-old man, additional electrical signals could be detected. The interaction between two endocardial defibrillation leads was identified as the cause of sensing problems. When it is not possible to extract the nonfunctional endocardial lead during implantation of the new electrode, it should be implanted away and not in parallel from the old one to avoid interaction between them. A variety of etiologies can cause erroneous detection in patiens with ICD. Interaction between two endocardial leads is rare and uncommon to cause electrical noise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrocardiology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. rafgar@poczta.onet.pl
authors.forename: Rafal
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gardas
authors.forename: Rafal
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mlynarski
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Staszak
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Drzewiecka
authors.forename: Eugeniusz
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pilat
authors.forename: Tadeusz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zajac
authors.forename: Wlodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kargul
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation