Cardiac pacemakers in the transplanted heart: Short term with the biatrial anastomosis and unnecessary with the bicaval anastomosis

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-120

  Herre, John M ^a,b   Barnhart, Glenn R ^a   Llano, Alfonso ^a  

^a SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; INOTROPIC AGENT;

AGE; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0034090753     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001573-200003000-00009     Document Type: Review

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