Medium-term follow-up and modes of failure following epicardial pacemaker implantation in young children

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 94-97

  Bakhtiary, Farhad ^a   Dzemali, Omer ^a   Bastanier, Christian K ^a   Moritz, Anton ^a   Kleine, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epicardial leads; Infants; Pacemakers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FOLLOW UP; GENERATOR; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART PACING; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; REOPERATION; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846903141     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eul172     Document Type: Article

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