Left ventricular malposition of pacemaker lead in Chagas' disease

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1682-1685

  Chun, Julian K R ^a   Bode, Frank ^a   Wiegand, Uwe K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial aneurysm; Chagas' disease; Left ventricular lead misplacement; Pacemaker implantation; Third degree AV block

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PACEMAKER LEAD MALPOSITION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ANEURYSM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PUNCTURES;

EID: 11144297188     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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