A new view of an unusual pacemaker complication: Role of three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Miglioranza, Marcelo Haertel ^a   Becker, Derly ^b   Jiménez Nácher, José Julio ^b   Moya, José Luis ^b   Golfin, Covadonga Fernandez ^b   Zamorano, José Luis ^b  

^a Rio Grande do Sul Cardiology Institute   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

echocardiography; endocavitary leads; pacemaker; three dimensional echocardiography; tricuspid regurgitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CYCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCAVITARY LEADS; PACEMAKER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID REGURGITATION;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84879779889     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12188     Document Type: Article

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