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Winding without twiddling of a pacemaker wire
Author(s) -
George Lazaros,
Costas Tsioufis,
Anastasios Milkas,
Christodoulos Stefanadis
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european heart journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336
H-Index - 293
eISSN - 1522-9645
pISSN - 0195-668X
DOI - 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs192
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , artificial cardiac pacemaker , atrial fibrillation , permanent pacemaker , lead (geology) , fixation (population genetics) , population , environmental health , geomorphology , geology
A 82-year-old obese woman with a history of permanent atrial fibrillation with slow ventricular response and syncope underwent pacemaker implantation using a single passive-fixation lead. Before discharge, a chest X-ray revealed a pacemaker lead placed in the right ventricular apical region, and an ECG recording showed a proper function of …

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