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- Title
Inappropriate Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Discharge Following Consumption of a Dietary Weight Loss Supplement.
- Authors
MCBRIDE, BRIAN F.; GUERTIN, DANETTE; WHITE, C. MICHAEL; KLUGER, JEFFREY
- Abstract
MCBRIDE B.F.,et al.: Inappropriate Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Discharge Following Consumption of a Dietary Weight Loss Supplement. This report describes the clinical course of a 40-year-old female who experienced repetitive ICD firing after consuming Metabolife 356, a multicomponent dietary weight loss supplement. Following the initiation of Metabolife 356, the patient experienced four shocks over a 3 day period with two 30 J shocks being delivered sequentially. Interrogation of the device revealed atrial tachycardia with 1:1 AV conduction at a rate of 240 beats/min. Metabolife 356 was discontinued and the dosage of sotalol was increased to 120 mg twice daily without recurrence of ICD discharge.(PACE 2004; 27:1317–1320)
- Subjects
IMPLANTABLE cardioverter-defibrillators; WEIGHT loss; ALTERNATIVE medicine; ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC arrest
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 2004, Vol 27, Issue 9, p1317
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00627.x