Pacemaker endocarditis: Approach for lead extraction in endocarditis with large vegetations;Endocardite em marca-passo: Abordagem na extração do cabo-eletrodo em endocardite com grandes vegetações

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 570-573

  Vaccarino, Guillermo Nuncio ^a   Nacinovich, Francisco ^a   Piccinini, Fernando ^a   Mazzetti, Hector ^a   Segura, Eliseo ^a   Navia, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CARDIOVASCULAR DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Endocarditis, bacterial; Pacemaker, artificial

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949886080     PISSN: 01027638     EISSN: 16789741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-76382009000500020     Document Type: Article

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