Extraction of the inner coil of a pacemaker lead slid into the pulmonary artery

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 273-275

  Golzio, Pier Giorgio ^a,c   Bongiorni, Maria Grazia ^b   Chiribiri, Amedeo ^a   Franco, Erica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications; Embolization; Lead extraction; Pacemaker; Pulmonary artery embolization

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VALVE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SKIN FISTULA; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847352940     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00661.x     Document Type: Article

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