Single center experience with femoral extraction of permanent endocardial pacing leads

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1202-1209

  Jarwe, Moustapha ^a   Klug, Didier ^a   Beregi, Jean Paul ^a   Le Franc, Pierre ^a   Lacroix, Dominique ^a   Kouakam, Claude ^a   Guédon Moreau, Laurence ^a   Zghal, Nazih ^a   Kacet, Salem ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Lead extraction; Pacemaker; Pacing complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; GRAFT INFECTION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032782314     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00601.x     Document Type: Article

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