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By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
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The afterward is an absolute cardiac electrophysiology case abstraction offered with the patient’s permission. It’s abstruse and contains an angel that ability about-face some folks’ stomachs, so for those who are a bit annoyed or aloof ate a meal: accede yourself warned and feel chargeless to canyon on this post. For the blow of you who abide absorbed and don’t apperception medical images, acceptable luck.
It was declared to be a simple ICD revision.
A above-mentioned belly ICD has been built-in in 1995. As was the barometer of the day, the ample ICD beating architect was built-in in the larboard high division of the belly and an affiliated to an old Guidant Endotak Model 0074 advance that was built-in via the larboard subclavian attitude and afresh tunneled bottomward to the belly pocket. The accessory served the accommodating able-bodied for abounding years until its array depleted in 2003. At that time, a new, abate ICD with an adapted attack replaced the old belly accessory and because the defibrillator advance formed well, the abate ICD beating architect was larboard in the belly pocket.
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Years anesthetized and the accommodating followed anxiously in the Accessory Clinic for his accepted defibrillator checks. While the advance impedance and abduction thresholds remained normal, about a year ago alternate periods of babble with non-physiologic abbreviate RR intervals evocative of accessible approaching advance breach began to arise on the patient’s accessory checks. Because the accommodating was not pacemaker abased nor abreast the time back his absolute ICD array would accept to be replaced again, it was adopted to delay until his array accomplished it’s constituent backup indicator afore alteration his system. Back that time came, a new defibrillator advance could be built-in and affiliated to a added accepted VVIR ICD beating architect built-in in the high chest breadth (the accommodating has abiding atrial fibrillation). The old beating architect could afresh be removed from his belly and the old advance capped and larboard in place.
So the day came for surgery. The accommodating acquainted fine: no fever, chills or added abnormal affection pre-operatively. A venogram performed anon afore the action appear a apparent larboard axillary and subclavian veins, so it was absitively to aboriginal advance with the new ICD implant on the aforementioned ancillary as the armpit breadth his aboriginal defibrillator was built-in followed by abatement of the old ICD beating architect from the abdomen. Pre-operative antibiotics were administered. To accomplish a continued adventure absolutely a bit shorter, the new single-chamber ICD built-in via the larboard axillary access was performed afterwards a hitch. A bathrobe was activated to the anguish and affairs fabricated to explant the belly beating generator.
The lower belly breadth was analogously able and draped. Local analgesic was infiltrated over the above-mentioned belly browse and an cavity fabricated at this location. Using electrocautery dissection, the cavity was agitated to the beating architect abridged which appeared to be absolutely thick, but uninflammed. The coarse abridged surrounding the beating architect was afresh opened. What was begin was amazing to all.
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Inside the beating architect abridged was the accessory and advance arrangement amidst in a blubbery aqueous that looked, for abridgement of a bigger way to call it, like wet, amber mud. There was no odor. The accessory was extracted from the abridged afterwards the abutment captivation the attack of the accessory to the abridged bank was cut. A allocation of the advance was additionally cut removed with the device. A account of the removed accessory is apparent here:
Soooo. What now?
Imagine you are the surgeon with this accessory in your hands. You accept addition case afterwards this one. You attempt to acquisition breadth this bearings avalanche aural our analytic "guidelines" for affliction and acquisition actual little. You aren’t abiding what you’re seeing, but alone apperceive that this "chocolate-coated" ICD beating architect is not the norm. (Usually they are nice and apple-pie afterwards debris.)
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Ideas?
-Wes
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