Epicardial lead implantation techniques for biventricular pacing via left lateral mini-thoracotomy, video-assisted thoracoscopy, and robotic approach

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 412-417

  Mair, Helmut ^a,d   Jansens, Jean Luc ^b   Lattouf, Omar M ^c   Reichart, Bruno ^a   Däbritz, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PLEURA DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROBOTICS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0142155053     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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