Autopsy and clinical context in deceased patients with implanted pacemakers and defibrillators: Intracardiac findings near their leads and electrodes

Europace

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1510-1516

  Novak, Miroslav ^a   Dvorak, Petr ^a   Kamaryt, Pavel ^a   Slana, Bronislava ^a   Lipoldova, Jolana ^a  

^a ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Connective tissue bridges; Extraction; Pacemaker defibrillator leads; Thrombi

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; POLYURETHAN; RUBBER; SILICON; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAVA VEIN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; AUTOPSY; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COMORBIDITY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THROMBOSIS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 70449344705     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup216     Document Type: Article

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