Effective Antitachycardia Therapy by Temporary External Defibrillator
Utilized as Bridge to Reimplantation
Abstract
The increasing number of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device
(CIED)-carriers is leading to a growing need of transvenous lead
extraction of various levels of complexity. Although still little
utilized for patients with CIED-related infection and concomitant
history of VT, report a peculiar case of transvenous lead extraction
with the following temporary external cardioverter-defibrillator
implantation as a bridge to reimplantation; this bridge system had a
life-saving role for the patient by stopping an episode of sustained
ventricular tachycardia through antitachycardia pacing.