The monolithic fetal pacemaker: Prototype lead design for closed thorax deployment

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 805-811

  Dell'Orfano, Joseph ^a,b   Chou, Howard A ^a   Park, Daegyun ^a   Mirza, Humair ^b   Stys, Tomasz ^b   Mahan, Vicki ^c   Zavitz, Daniel H ^d   Petrikovsky, Boris M ^d   Ovadia, Marc ^a,b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ADVOCATE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Heart Institute for Children   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial; Artificial stimulation; Cardiac; Complete heart block; Fetal; Fetal surgery; Fetal ultrasound; Fetoscopy; Heart block; Hydrops fetails; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETOSCOPY; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HYDROPS; FETUS SURGERY; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; NONHUMAN; QRS COMPLEX; RAT; SAFETY; STERNOTOMY; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL APPROACH;

EID: 0037394385     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00143.x     Document Type: Article

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