Increasing hazard of Sprint Fidelis implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead failure

Annual Rate of Transvenous Defibrillation Lead Defects in Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Over a Period of >10 Years

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Medicine, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery +10

Early failure of a small-diameter high-voltage implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead

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Medicine, Cardiology, Electrical Engineering +12

Necessity for Surgical Revision of Defibrillator Leads Implanted Long-Term

Jens Eckstein, Michael Koller, Markus Zabel et al. · Circulation · 2008 · 150 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +11

Downloadable Algorithm to Reduce Inappropriate Shocks Caused by Fractures of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads

Charles D. Swerdlow, Bruce D. Gunderson, Kevin T. Ousdigian et al. · Circulation · 2008 · 141 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Bioinstrumentation +16

Inappropriate therapy and fatal proarrhythmia by an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

Dirk Vollmann, Lars Lüthje, Stefan Vonhof et al. · Heart Rhythm · 2005 · 93 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Cardiology +14