Transvenous extraction of pacemaker leads in infective endocarditis with vegetations ≥20 mm: Our experience

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 244-249

  Pérez Baztarrica, Gabriel ^a   Gariglio, Luis ^a   Salvaggio, Flavio ^a   Reolõn, Estela ^a   Blanco, Norberto ^a   Mazzetti, Hector ^a   Villecco, Sebastián ^a   Botbol, Alejandro ^a   Porcile, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA INTERAMERICANA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LACERATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PACEMAKER; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRODES; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84859750380     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.21018     Document Type: Article

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