European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) international consensus document on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat cardiac implantable electronic device infections—endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases (ISCVID) and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Pacemakers, implantable cardiac defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices are potentially life-saving treatments for a number of cardiac conditions, but are not without risk. Most concerning is the risk of a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection, which is associa...

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Autores principales:	Blomström-Lundqvist, Carina, Traykov, Vassil, Erba, Paola Anna, Burri, Haran, Nielsen, Jens Cosedis, Bongiorni, Maria Grazia, Poole, Jeanne, Boriani, Giuseppe, Costa, Roberto, Deharo, Jean-Claude, Epstein, Laurence M, Saghy, Laszlo, Snygg-Martin, Ulrika, Starck, Christoph, Tascini, Carlo, Strathmore, Neil
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Oxford University Press 2020
Materias:	EHRA Position Paper
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132545/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31702000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/europace/euz246