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Review
. 2001 Aug;86(2):221-6.
doi: 10.1136/heart.86.2.221.

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

D T Connelly  1
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Review

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

D T Connelly. Heart. 2001 Aug.
No abstract available

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Posteroanterior chest x ray showing positioning of ICD generator and lead.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Stored intracardiac electrograms from an ICD which treated a spontaneous episode of ventricular fibrillation with a 34 J shock.
Figure 3:
Figure 3:
Stored intracardiac electrograms from an ICD showing spontaneous onset of ventricular tachycardia with a cycle length of 380 ms (rate 158/min) treated by a burst of antitachycardia pacing (ATP), which restored sinus rhythm.
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