Extrapleural Intrathoracic Implantation of Permanent Pacemaker in the Pediatric Age Group

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1549-1552

  Agarwal, Ravi ^a   Krishnan, Ganapathy Subramaniam ^a   Abraham, Smartin ^a   Bhatt, Kinnari ^a   Sekar, Prem ^a   Kulkarni, Snehal ^a   Cherian, Kotturathu Mammen ^a  

^a International Centre for Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Diseases   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX; THORAX SURGERY;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PEDIATRICS; PLEURA; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; THORACIC CAVITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947320664     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.09.049     Document Type: Article

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