Mid-term follow up of thromboembolic complications in left ventricular endocardial cardiac resynchronization therapy

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 609-613

  Rademakers, Leonard M ^a   Van Gelder, Berry M ^a   Scheffer, Mike G ^b   Bracke, Frank A ^a  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Cerebrovascular accident; Endocardial left ventricular lead placement; Stroke; Thromboembolic risks

Indexed keywords

COUMARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CORONARY SINUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEPARINIZATION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS;

AGED; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE;

EID: 84897102220     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.01.031     Document Type: Article

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