Interference between pacemakers/implantable cardioverter defibrillators and video capsule endoscopy  

作　　者：Dirk Bandorski Johannes Gehron Reinhard Hltgen 

机构地区：[1]Medical Clinic Ⅱ, University Hospital Giessen und Marburg GmbH [2]Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Giessen und Marburg GmbH [3]Medical Clinic Ⅲ, St.-Agnes Hospital Bocholt

出　　处：《World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy》2013年第4期201-202,共2页世界胃肠内镜杂志（英文版）（电子版）

摘　　要：Our Letter to the Editor, related to the article "Small bowel capsule endoscopy in patients with cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Outcome analysis using telemetry" by Cuschieri et al , comments on some small errors, that slipped into the authors discussions. The given informations concerning the pacemakerand implantable cardioverter defibrillators modes were inaccurate and differ between the text and the table. Moreover, as 8 of 20 patient's pacemakers were programmed to VOO or DOO ("interference mode") and one patient was not monitored by telemetry during capsule endoscopy, 9 of 20 patients (45%) lack the informations of possible interference between capsule endoscopy their implanted device. Another objection refers to the interpretation of an electrocardiogram (figure 1, trace B) presented: in contrast to the author's opinion the marked spike should be interpreted as an artefact and not as "undersensing of a fibrillatory wave". Finally, three comments to cited reviews were not complete respectively not quoted correctly.Our Letter to the Editor, related to the article "Small bowel capsule endoscopy in patients with cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Outcome analysis using telemetry" by Cuschieri et al , comments on some small errors, that slipped into the authors discussions. The given informations concerning the pacemakerand implantable cardioverter defibrillators modes were inaccurate and differ between the text and the table. Moreover, as 8 of 20 patient’s pacemakers were programmed to VOO or DOO ("interference mode") and one patient was not monitored by telemetry during capsule endoscopy, 9 of 20 patients (45%) lack the informations of possible interference between capsule endoscopy their implanted device. Another objection refers to the interpretation of an electrocardiogram (figure 1, trace B) presented: in contrast to the author’s opinion the marked spike should be interpreted as an artefact and not as "undersensing of a fibrillatory wave". Finally, three comments to cited reviews were not complete respectively not quoted correctly.

关 键 词：CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY Small bowel CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY INTERFERENCE Cardiac PACEMAKER Implantable cardioverter DEFIBRILLATOR Telemetry 

分 类 号：R654.2[医药卫生—外科学]