Kentrox failure -now it's official

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Heart Rhythm
Available online 10 May 2014,
In Press, Accepted Manuscript — Note to users
Conductor externalization of the Biotronik Kentrox internal cardioverter defibrillator lead: The tip of another iceberg? ☆
Bernard Abi-Saleh MD, FHRSMarwan M. Refaat MD, FHRSMaurice Khoury M.D.Bruce Wilkoff MD, FHRS
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Abbreviations
ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillatorOPTIMUM, OPTIM Lead Insulation MaterialHV, High VoltageMAUDE, Manufacturers and User Facility Device Experience database7F, 7 French8F, 8 French4F, 4 French
Key words
ICD leadExternalized conductorsKentroxICD shocksInsulation defectAdvisory
 












I wonder… Did all of these holier than thou docs that use nothing but MDT (you know who you are, some of you are listed in this article) that love to get their names in lights in article/journals, on blogs/Twitter, etc. bashing the likes of SJM, BIO and even BSX stand up on your same pedestals to bark at MDT over the Fidellis, the Marquis 'hot can' and the many other issues that MDT has navigated through over the years?

I'm gonna guess no.
 






Anonymous said:
Heart Rhythm
Available online 10 May 2014,
In Press, Accepted Manuscript — Note to users
Conductor externalization of the Biotronik Kentrox internal cardioverter defibrillator lead: The tip of another iceberg? ☆
Bernard Abi-Saleh MD, FHRSMarwan M. Refaat MD, FHRSMaurice Khoury M.D.Bruce Wilkoff MD, FHRS
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Check for full text accessPurchase $35.95Get Full Text Elsewhere
Abbreviations
ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillatorOPTIMUM, OPTIM Lead Insulation MaterialHV, High VoltageMAUDE, Manufacturers and User Facility Device Experience database7F, 7 French8F, 8 French4F, 4 French
Key words
ICD leadExternalized conductorsKentroxICD shocksInsulation defectAdvisory
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Okay…. So, did these same folks that are screaming at SJM, BIO and BSX and use 99% MDT, Did they scream with the same vigor at MDT for their Fidellis, Marquis 'hot can' and other issues? You guys and you know who you are sure are high and mighty in your articles/journals, on blogs/Twitter and other forums and you barely even touch those companies - why do you care so much?

Gonna guess that they did not.
 






It looks like a previous poster might have repeated themselves but I agree. When MDT had or has issues the same people that stand up on their podiums or behind their blogs simply accept MDT's issues as, "Well, these things are man made and things will happen. It is an unfortunate reality to what we do." But when anyone else has the slightest hiccup they scream demanding answers and throwing anyone under the bus that gets in their way.
 












Anonymous said:
Heart Rhythm
Available online 10 May 2014,
In Press, Accepted Manuscript — Note to users
Conductor externalization of the Biotronik Kentrox internal cardioverter defibrillator lead: The tip of another iceberg? ☆
Bernard Abi-Saleh MD, FHRSMarwan M. Refaat MD, FHRSMaurice Khoury M.D.Bruce Wilkoff MD, FHRS
Show more
Check for full text accessPurchase $35.95Get Full Text Elsewhere
Abbreviations
ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillatorOPTIMUM, OPTIM Lead Insulation MaterialHV, High VoltageMAUDE, Manufacturers and User Facility Device Experience database7F, 7 French8F, 8 French4F, 4 French
Key words
ICD leadExternalized conductorsKentroxICD shocksInsulation defectAdvisory
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The "paper" is f**king ridicoulus. An externalized conductor after 7 years of implantation in a young and active Burgada patient? Look at the x-ray: implanted like shit and they cannot even tell if it is outside in abrasion. I think the only thing that this paper is is a little hope for fame from a poor libanese doc in his slum third world country. They should be happy Bio distributed there at all.

I wonder why wilkoff gave this name for this nonsense.
 












Anonymous said:
It looks like a previous poster might have repeated themselves but I agree. When MDT had or has issues the same people that stand up on their podiums or behind their blogs simply accept MDT's issues as, "Well, these things are man made and things will happen. It is an unfortunate reality to what we do." But when anyone else has the slightest hiccup they scream demanding answers and throwing anyone under the bus that gets in their way.
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"I promise not to sell Kentrox anymore," said the 1998 Biotronik Rep.
 






























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