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Electrophysiologic procedures in the young engender concern about the potential long-term effects of radiation exposure. This concern is manifold if such procedures are contemplated during pregnancy. Catheter ablations in pregnancy are indicated only in the presence of an unstable tachycardia that cannot be controlled by antiarrhythmic agents. This report describes the case of an 18-year-old pregnant woman and our stratagem to minimize irradiation of the mother and the fetus.
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Ablação por Cateter/métodos , Feto/efeitos da radiação , Fluoroscopia/métodos , Complicações Cardiovasculares na Gravidez/cirurgia , Taquicardia Supraventricular/cirurgia , Adolescente , Técnicas Eletrofisiológicas Cardíacas , Feminino , Humanos , Gravidez , Exposição à RadiaçãoRESUMO
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Inappropriate shocks from implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may occur for many reasons. Inappropriate shocks are not simply painful inconveniences for patients; they also may result in the need for further operative procedures, and sometimes even death. Herein, we report the case of a patient who after upgrade of an ICD to a cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator device (CRT-D), returned with multiple shocks due to altered sensing and defibrillation polarities that resulted from actual physical reversal of the distal (-) and proximal (+) lead terminals in the header of the device.