Cardioverter defibrillator implantation in a pregnant woman guided with transesophageal echocardiography

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1913-1914

  Abello, Mauricio ^a   Peinado, Rafael ^a   Merino, José Luis ^a   Gnoatto, Mariana ^a   Mateos, Marta ^a   Silvestre, Jorge ^a   Dominguez, José Luis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Pregnancy; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; FLECAINIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; SUDDEN DEATH; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0141630282     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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