Pacemaker lead design masquerading as lead fracture

Performing chest X-ray is an important annual investigation to check pacemaker lead integrity during follow-up of patients with pacemakers. Understanding lead design is vital to the correct interpretation of X-rays to prevent inappropriate interventions for patients as highlighted in this case.

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Autores principales: Gangadhara, Madhu, Peebles, Charles, Gnanapragasam, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26556977
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.158521
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spelling pubmed-46082082015-11-09 Pacemaker lead design masquerading as lead fracture Gangadhara, Madhu Peebles, Charles Gnanapragasam, James Ann Pediatr Cardiol Images Performing chest X-ray is an important annual investigation to check pacemaker lead integrity during follow-up of patients with pacemakers. Understanding lead design is vital to the correct interpretation of X-rays to prevent inappropriate interventions for patients as highlighted in this case. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4608208/ /pubmed/26556977 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.158521 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Pacemaker lead design masquerading as lead fracture
title Pacemaker lead design masquerading as lead fracture
title_full Pacemaker lead design masquerading as lead fracture
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608208/
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