1.
Tex Heart Inst J
; 47(3): 239-240, 2020 06 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32997777
2.
Tex Heart Inst J
; 44(3): 223-225, 2017 Jun.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28761406
ABSTRACT
Implanted cardioverter-defibrillators can prevent sudden cardiac death in at-risk patients. In comparison with conventional transvenous systems, entirely subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators have produced similar reductions in the rate of sudden cardiac death but with fewer sequelae. An infrequently reported drawback of subcutaneous devices, however, is the potential for generating attenuation artifact during nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging. We had concerns about potential attenuation artifact in a 65-year-old man with coronary artery disease but found that having positioned the pulse generator in the midaxillary zone avoided problems.