Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Annual Rate of Transvenous Defibrillation Lead Defects in Cardioverter-Defibrillators Over a Period of >10 Years”

Clinical Performance of the St. Jude Medical Riata Defibrillation Lead in a Large Patient Population

“…Recent reports in the literature have identified that ICD leads exhibit several specific failure modes. These include insulation failure, lead conductor failure, lead dislodgement, and lead perforation of the myocardium 1–13 . These may be manifest as failure to pace, undersensing or oversensing and failure to defibrillate.…”