Incidence and predictors of short- and long-term complications in pacemaker therapy: The FOLLOWPACE study

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 728-735

  Udo, Erik O ^a   Zuithoff, Nicolaas P A ^a   Van Hemel, Norbert M ^a   De Cock, Carel C ^b   Hendriks, Thijs ^b   Doevendans, Pieter A ^a   Moons, Karel G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complications; Follow up; Independent predictors; Pacemaker; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; BRADYCARDIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PACEMAKER; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84860006833     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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