The road to right ventricular septal pacing: Techniques and tools

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 888-898

  Mond, Harry G ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

pacing lead implantation; right ventricular septum

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; PACEMAKER; REVIEW; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 77954355127     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.02777.x     Document Type: Review

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