Cerebral embolism due to a retained pacemaker lead: A case report

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 629-630

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

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cerebral embolism; Retained lead

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RUPTURE;

EID: 0031966289     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00111.x     Document Type: Article

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