Why the study?
Does the elongated shape of an implantable cardiac defibrillator predispose patients to spontaneous Twiddler's syndrome?
Population
n=3 patients with an implantable cardiac defibrillator who experienced spontaneous device rotation and lead…
Design
Case_series
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Elongated ICDs may predispose to spontaneous Twiddler's syndrome; hypothesis-generating case series requiring confirmation.
Does the elongated shape of an implantable cardiac defibrillator predispose patients to spontaneous Twiddler's syndrome?
The elongated shape of certain implantable cardiac defibrillators may predispose them to spontaneous rotation and lead displacement without patient manipulation.
Gül et al. (2016) studied this question.
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