Infections of Permanent Transvenous Pacemakers - Etiology, Medical Treatment and Optimal Surgical Techniques
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Clinical evaluation of myocardial perforation as a complication of permanent transvenous pacemakers.
A simple and reliable radiographic method to aid in the detection of penetration or perforation of the myocardium by permanent transvenous pacemaker electrodes is described. The "epicardial fat-pad sign" wm M y positive in three Usymptomatic" patients in whom electrodes had perforated the myocardium and in eight of 28 "nonsymptomatic" patients with pacemakers implanted ra long arr three years. ...
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Background Transesophageal echocardiography is superior to transthoracic echocardiography in detecting left-sided valvular vegetations. There are no data on the value of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of infected transvenous permanent pacemakers. Methods and Results Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography was performed in 10 patients for whom there was clinical sus...
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Background Transesophageal echocardiography is superior to transthoracic echocardiography in detecting left-sided valvular vegetations. There are no data on the value of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of infected transvenous permanent pacemakers. Methods and Results Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography was performed in 10 patients for whom there was clinical sus...
متن کاملUsefulness of transesophageal echocardiography for diagnosis of infected transvenous permanent pacemakers.
BACKGROUND Transesophageal echocardiography is superior to transthoracic echocardiography in detecting left-sided valvular vegetations. There are no data on the value of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of infected transvenous permanent pacemakers. METHODS AND RESULTS Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography was performed in 10 patients for whom there was clinical s...
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تاریخ انتشار 2017