Incidence of complications in patients with implantable cardioverter/defibrillator who receive additional transvenous pace/sense leads

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 795-800

  Wollmann, Christian G ^a   Böcker, Dirk ^a,b   Löher, Andreas ^a   Köbe, Julia ^a   Scheld, Hans H ^a   Breithardt, Günter E ^a   Gradaus, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Leads

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 27844469791     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00169.x     Document Type: Article

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