Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of thrombosis associated with permanent transvenous pacemaker electrodes

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1245-1250

  Korkeila, Petri J ^a,b   Saraste, Markku K ^a   Nyman, Kai M ^a   Koistinen, Juhani ^a   Lund, Juha ^a   Juhani Airaksinen, Karl Eino ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cardioverter defibrillator; Pacemaker; Thrombosis; Transesophageal echocardiography; Venography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33750717196     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00519.x     Document Type: Article

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