A rare case of late right ventricular perforation by a passive-fixation permanent pacemaker lead

Europace

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 968-969

  Tziakas, Dimitrios ^a   Alexoudis, Apostolos ^a   Konstantinou, Fotios ^a   Chalikias, Georgios ^a   Stakos, Dimitrios ^a   Bougioukas, Georgios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORATION; HUMAN; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SYNCOPE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RARE DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 67650921914     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup120     Document Type: Article

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