Mobile thrombus on device leads in patients undergoing ablation: Identification, incidence, location, and association with increased pulmonary artery systolic pressure

Circulation

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 772-778

  Supple, Gregory E ^a   Ren, Jian Fang ^a   Zado, Erica S ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac implantable electronic device; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; intracardiac echocardiography; pacemakers; thrombus

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHETER ABLATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80051929265     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.028647     Document Type: Article

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