Pacemaker therapy in premature children with high degree AV block

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2695-2698

  Nowak, Bernd ^a   Kampmann, Christoph ^a   Schmid, Franz Xaver ^a   Przibille, Oliver ^a   Wippermann, Friedrich ^a   Himmrich, Ewald ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocapture; Children; Epicardial pacing; Steroid elution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PREMATURITY; PULSE GENERATOR;

ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032407677     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00052.x     Document Type: Article

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