Extraction and Replacement of Permanent Pacemaker Leads Through Occluded Vessels: Use of Extraction Sheaths as Conduits - Balloon Venoplasty as an Adjunct

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 271-279

  Pace, Joseph N ^a   Maquilan, March ^a   Hessen, Scott E ^a   Khoury, Paul A ^a   Wilson, Audrey ^a   Kutalek, Steven P ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloon venoplasty; Lead extraction; Pacemaker lead; Superior vena cava syndrome; Venous thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BALLOON DILATATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BALLOON DILATATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REOPERATION; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031292750     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009724908464     Document Type: Article

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