Retrieval of pacemaker lead tip embolized into the distal pulmonary arterial bed during extraction procedure

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1558-1561

  Golzio, Pier Giorgio ^a,d   Bongiorni, Maria Grazia ^b   Giuggia, Marco ^a   Vinci, Melissa ^a   Gazzera, Carlo ^c   Breatta, Andrea Doriguzzi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications; Embolization; Lead extraction; Pacemaker; Pulmonary artery embolization

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATOR; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOLOGIST; RADIOLOGY; STAFF;

AGED; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 36649033636     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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