Role of the echocardiography laboratory in diagnosis and management of pacemaker and implantable cardiac defibrillator infection

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1008-1012

  Kerut, Edmund Kenneth ^a,b   Hanawalt, Curtis ^c   Everson, Charles T ^c  

^a HEART CLINIC OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c West Jefferson Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; CXR; Echocardiography; Electrode; ICD; Infection; TEE

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE INFECTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 34748887162     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00473.x     Document Type: Article

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