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Device failure from unexpected battery depletion is uncommon but can be life-threatening. Lithium cluster formation at the cathode is a novel mechanism of sudden implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) battery depletion that was first reported in 2014. We report a rare case of a 78-year-old woman with an ICD battery failure due to lithium cluster formation. Although she had never received ICD...
Several trials demonstrated that a long detection interval and a high-rate cutoff reduced implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy in primary prevention patients. However, only a few data are available for secondary prevention (SP) patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether these ICD programming would be effective in reducing ICD therapies in SP patients. We enrolled 65 SP...
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