Atrioventricular block occurring late after heart transplantation: Presentation of three cases and literature review

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 325-330

  Cataldo, Renzo ^a,b   Olsen, Stephanie ^a   Freedman, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac pacing; cardiac transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINUS NODE DISEASE;

ADULT; HEART BLOCK; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029916971     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03334.x     Document Type: Article

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