Percutaneous treatment of the superior vena cava syndrome via an excimer laser sheath in a patient with a single chamber atrial pacemaker

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-206

  Garlitski, Ann C ^a   Swingle, Jad D ^a   Aizer, Anthony ^a   Holmes, Douglas S ^a   Bernstein, Neil E ^a   Chinitz, Larry A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Excimer laser sheath; Pacemaker; Percutaneous treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CORONARY STENT; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME;

ADULT; AZYGOS VEIN; BALLOON DILATATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; STENTS; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME;

EID: 33845868192     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-006-9041-5     Document Type: Article

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