The incidence of reoperations in pacemaker recipients

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 306-309

  Fleck, Tatiana ^a   Khazen, Cesar ^a   Wolner, Ernst ^a   Grabenwoger, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KH Hietzing ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; TREATMENT INDICATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PACING; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33750560893     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20061057     Document Type: Article

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