Diagnostic dilemma: A pacemaker lead inside the left atrium or an echocardiographic beam width artifact?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1043-1044

  Skubas, Nikolaos ^a   Brown, Natalia Ivascu ^a   Mishra, Rakesh ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645510296     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000198336.46894.58     Document Type: Article

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