The innominate vein as alternative venous access for complicated implantable cardioverter defibrillator revisions

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 957-960

  Aleksic, Ivan ^a,b   Kottenberg Assenmacher, Eva ^a   Kienbaum, Peter ^a   Szabo, Andras K ^a   Sommer, Sebastian Patrick ^a   Wieneke, Heiner ^a   Yildirim, Cagatay ^a   Leyh, Rainer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defibrillators; Implantable; Innominate veins; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN OCCLUSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547566232     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00792.x     Document Type: Article

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