Termination of implantable pacemaker therapy: Experience in five patients

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 787-790

  Iskos, Demosthenes ^a,b   Lurie, Keith G ^a,b   Sakaguchi, Scott ^a,b   Benditt, David G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031004060     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-10-199705150-00007     Document Type: Article

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