Jugular pacing lead extraction with laser sheath: A case report

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 447-448

  Curnis, Antonio ^a   Coppola, Giuseppe ^b   Racheli, Marco ^a   Cerini, Manuel ^a   Pagnoni, Carlo ^a   Lipari, Alessandro ^a   Berlinghieri, Nicola ^a   Metwally, Mohamed A ^c   Bontempi, Luca ^a   Dei Cas, Livio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c Police Authority Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DEVICE REMOVAL; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART PACING; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; LASERS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 77749334505     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup417     Document Type: Article

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