75-year-old man with lung cancer obscured by an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator — case report

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in a patient with dextrocardia situs inversus

Background: Dextrocardia is a congenital anomaly, which may have coexistent coronary artery disease (CAD), arrhythmias and conventional indications for device therapy. However, the implantation of transvenous leads can be technically challenging and the approach needs to be tailored to the patient's individual anatomy. Case presentation: A 54-year-old male with dextrocardia situs inversus and i...

Pulmonary embolism in a man with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.

Is anyone too old for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator?

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are one of the few interventions where we can be reasonably confident that a patient did or did not benefit from the treatment. If one is to benefit from an ICD, then the person must survive long enough to have an arrhythmic event and receive therapy from the device. Thus, the patients who benefit the most are those with a high rate of arrhythmic d...

Echocardiography in detecting implantable cardioverter defibrillator lead endocarditis: case report.

Lead endocarditis is an infrequent but potentially lethal complication of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation. We report a case of a 53-year-old man with ICD who was admitted to our hospital because of fever, chills, shivering, headache and malaise. Transthoracic echocardiography detected a structure highly suspect of vegetation located on the ICD lead. Transesophageal ech...

Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.

or nearly 3 decades, the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has been available to patients who survived life-threatening rapid heart rhythms or are at risk of experiencing them. The ICD comprises a device generator coupled with a defibrillation lead. Traditional ICDs are implanted under the skin with the generator positioned beneath the collar bone. The defibrilla-tion lead is inserte...