Coronary sinus lead extraction in the era of cardiac resynchronization therapy: Single center experience

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-53

  Kasravi, Babak ^a,b   Tobias, Serge ^a   Barnes, Mary J ^a   Messenger, John C ^a  

^a Memorial Heart & Vascular Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary sinus; Lead extraction; Resynchronization

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLEEDING; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORONARY SINUS; EXTRACTION; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; LACERATION; METHODOLOGY; PACEMAKER; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; REVIEW; SAFETY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY VESSELS; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

EID: 12844255864     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.09353.x     Document Type: Review

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