Pacing-related acute pulmonary edema and mechanical asynchrony illustrated by three-dimensional echocardiography

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 325-327

  Wu, Chia Tung ^a   Wang, Chun Li ^a   Luqman, Nazar ^b   Kuo, Chi Tai ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b RIPAS HOSPITAL   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Pacemaker; Three dimensional echocardiogram

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY EDEMA; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 34447545855     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum032     Document Type: Article

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