Surgical lead-preserving procedures for pacemaker pocket infection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1494-1499

  Yamada, Makoto ^a   Takeuchi, Susumu ^a   Shiojiri, Yasuhiro ^a   Maruta, Kazuto ^a   Oki, Atsuyoshi ^a   Iyano, Katsuyoshi ^a   Takaba, Toshihiro ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REINFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0036841412     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03949-8     Document Type: Article

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