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A 48 year old male with a history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, ischemic cardiomyopathy with an ejection fraction of 10% with an biventricular ICD presented with an shock from his device. He has had increased social stressors at home which have resulted in him running out of his heart failure medications.

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  1. Riverside Electrophysiology, 4000 14th Street, Suite 209, Riverside, CA, 92501, USA

    Ronald Lo

  2. School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, H-2146, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Amin Al-Ahmad & Paul J. Wang

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  1. Dept. Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Euclid Ave. 9500, Cleveland, 44195, Ohio, USA

    Andrea Natale

  2. Arrhythmia Service at Stanford Universit, Stanford, 94305, USA

    Amin Al-Ahmad

  3. Stanford, 94305, California, USA

    Paul J. Wang

  4. Cardiovascular Division, University of V, 1215 Lee Street, Charlottesville, 22908, USA

    John DiMarco

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Lo, R., Al-Ahmad, A., Wang, P.J. (2011). Case 123. In: Natale, A., Al-Ahmad, A., Wang, P., DiMarco, J. (eds) Cardiac Electrophysiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-390-9_123

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