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Pacemaker Dual Replaced with Biventricular ICD

Date: Mar 31, 2014

Question:

These cases still confuse me. Patient had a dual pacemaker and right ventricular lead replaced with a biventricular ICD with left ventricle lead. It's the replacing of the generator that throws me off because we are replacing a pacemaker with an ICD.

Question ID : 5497
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