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Acupuncture triggering inappropriate ICD shocks.

Lau EW, Birnie DH, Lemery R, Tang AS, Green MS

University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4W7, Canada. elau@ottawaheart.ca

Acupuncture is a modality of alternative medicine popular certain sectors of society. The possible interaction between acupuncture and ICD therapy has not been previously investigated. A case of acupuncture triggering inappropriate shocks from the ICD is reported.

Published 26 January 2005 in Europace, 7(1): 85-6.
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