Histological findings around electrodes in pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients: Comparison of steroid-eluting and non-steroid-eluting electrodes

Europace

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-123

  Dvorak, Petr ^a   Novak, Miroslav ^a   Kamaryt, Pavel ^a   Slana, Bronislava ^a   Lipoldova, Jolana ^a   Dvorak, Pavel ^b  

^a ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Histology; ICD electrodes; Pacemaker electrodes; Steroid eluting pacing electrodes

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVERSION; CORONARY SINUS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DRUG ELUTING ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GIANT CELL; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID ELUTING PACING ELECTRODE; THROMBUS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY SINUS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FIBRIN; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84055199260     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eur274     Document Type: Article

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