The treatment of septicemia in pacemaker patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1105-1111

  Böhm, Ádám ^a   Bányai, Ferenc ^a   Préda, István ^a   Zámolyi, Károly ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

pacemaker endocarditis; two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029791535     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03420.x     Document Type: Article

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