Fluoroscopically guided implantation of modern cardiac resynchronization devices: Radiation burden to the patient and associated risks

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2335-2339

  Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Theocharopoulos, Nicholas ^a,b   Damilakis, John ^a   Manios, Emmanouel ^a   Vardas, Panayiotis ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; X RAY;

AGED; BODY BURDEN; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 28944437901     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.01.070     Document Type: Article

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