Integrated home monitoring predicts lead failure in a pacemaker dependent 4-year-old girl

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 192-193

  Zartner, P A ^a   Handke, R P ^a   Brecher, A M ^a   Schneider, M B E ^a  

^a Department for Cardiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Congenital Heart Disease; Emergency; Exit block; Home monitoring; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; AUTOMATION; CASE REPORT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HOME MONITORING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 33947159735     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum003     Document Type: Article

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