Severe Superior Vena Cava Syndrome after Transvenous Pacemaker Implantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Ruge, Hendrik ^a   Wildhirt, Stephen M ^a   Poerner, Michael ^a   Mayr, Norbert ^a   Bauernschmitt, Robert ^a   Martinoff, Stefan ^a   Lange, Ruediger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENPROCOUMON;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CASE REPORT; DIZZINESS; FACE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NECK; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; SWELLING; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33751188304     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.08.027     Document Type: Article

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