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A tachycardia-terminating pacemaker demonstrated reliable sensing and termination of recurrent supraventricular tachycardia in a patient refractory to medical therapy.
A 66-year-old female with recurrent supraventricular tachycardia which worsened progressively was treated with an implanted tachycardia-terminating pacemaker after treatment with antiarrhythmic drug therapy had failed. The pacemaker had the capacity to detect and respond to tachyarrhythmias. Reliable sensing and termination of the patients tachycardia was accomplished in over 100 inductions of the tachyarrhythmia. Use of this tachycardia-terminating pacer has given us several new insights that may be important in the care and follow-up of all pacemaker patients.
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