Pacemaker lead fracture due to twiddler's syndrome

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1162-1163

  Böhm, Ádám ^a   Komáromy, Katalin ^a   Pintér, Arnold ^a   Préda, István ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Lead fracture; Twiddler's syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MUSCLE EXCITATION; PULSE GENERATOR; SYNDROME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; ROTATION; SYNDROME;

EID: 0031957176     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00166.x     Document Type: Article

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