Biventricular pacing exclusively via a persistent left-sided superior vena cava: Case report

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 640-642

  Lane, Rebecca E ^a   Chow, Anthony W C ^a   Mayet, Jamil ^a   Davies, D Wyn ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; HEART CATHETER; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; INTUBATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL APPROACH;

EID: 0037306781     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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