Gold-coated pacemaker implantation after allergic reactions to pacemaker compounds

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 749-750

  Syburra, Thomas ^a,b   Schurr, Ulrich ^a   Rahn, Mariette ^b   Graves, Kirk ^a   Genoni, Michele ^a  

^a TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE REMOVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; HYPERSENSITIVITY; SKIN TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

GOLD; TITANIUM;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; GOLD; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SKIN TESTS; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951960387     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup411     Document Type: Article

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