Accelerating risk of Fidelis lead fracture

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1375-1379

  Farwell, David ^a   Green, Martin S ^a   Lemery, Robert ^a   Gollob, Michael H ^a   Birnie, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alert; Failure rate; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Lead failure; Predictors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LEAD FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 53049105768     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.06.024     Document Type: Article

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