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. 2019 Feb 22;35(2):276-278.
doi: 10.1002/joa3.12170. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Undersensing of ventricular fibrillation by a biventricular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: What is the cause and the troubleshooting?

Kien Vo Le  1 , Hideo Okamura  1 , Kenzaburo Nakajima  1 , Takashi Noda  1 , Kengo Kusano  1
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Undersensing of ventricular fibrillation by a biventricular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: What is the cause and the troubleshooting?

Kien Vo Le et al. J Arrhythm. .
No abstract available

Keywords: CRT‐D; dissociation; undersensing; ventricular tachycardia.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interests for this article.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Event recording by cardioverter‐defibrillator (CRT‐D) Model H197 (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, MA) during DFT testing. (This recording is not a continuous one.)
Figure 2
Figure 2
A, Left ventricular protection period. B, Troubleshooting of this case. LV lead was plugged to the RV IS‐1 port and vice versa (RV IS‐1 to the LV IS‐1 port)
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