%0 Journal Article
%T Interference between pacemakers/implantable cardioverter defibrillators and video capsule endoscopy
%A Dirk Bandorski
%A Johannes Gehron
%A Reinhard H£¿ltgen
%J World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
%D 2013
%I Baishideng Publishing Group Co. Limited
%R 10.4253/wjge.v5.i4.201
%X 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 pacemaker- and 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.
%K Capsule endoscopy
%K Small bowel capsule endoscopy
%K Interference
%K Cardiac pacemaker
%K Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
%K Telemetry
%U http://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5190/full/v5/i4/201.htm