A Stroke of Bad Luck: Left Ventricular Pacemaker Malposition

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1316.e1-1316.e3

  Reising, Scott ^a   Safford, Robert ^a   Castello, Ramon ^c   Bosworth, Veronica ^a   Freeman, William ^a   Kusumoto, Fred ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiovascular Medicine   (United States)

^c Department of Neurology Mayo Clinic ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; LEPIRUDIN; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PACEMAKER; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 35648986043     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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