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Contact Sensitivity to Polychloroparaxylene‐Coated Cardiac Pacemaker
Author(s) -
IGUCHI NOBUO,
KASANUKI HIROSHI,
MATSUDA NAOKI,
SHODA MORIO,
OHNISHI SATOSHI,
HOSODA SAICHI
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06188.x
Subject(s) - medicine , polytetrafluoroethylene , parylene , cardiac pacemaker , biomedical engineering , cardiology , composite material , materials science , polymer
Poly‐chloroparaxylene (parylene) is widely used as a material for cardiac pacemaker coating. Contact sensitivity to parylene was proven by patch test. Wrapping the pacemaker in a polytetrafluoroethylene sheet prior to implantation prevented further skin reactions.

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