Surgical interruption of a left inferior vena cava following the transfemoral implantation of a permanent pacing lead

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 1365-1366

  Trigano, Alexandre J ^a,b   Paganelli, Franck ^a   Alimi, Yves ^a   Juhan, Claude ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

left inferior vena cava; transfemoral implantation; venous thrombosis

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AZYGOS VEIN; CASE REPORT; FEMORAL VEIN; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; STENOSIS; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; VEIN MALFORMATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; THROMBOSIS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0030925460     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06793.x     Document Type: Article

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