Electronic Resource
Springer
Pediatric cardiology
3 (1982), S. 337-340
ISSN:
1432-1971
Keywords:
Cardiac pacemakers
;
Congenital heart block
;
Sick sinus syndrome
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Summary Indications and results are presented for nearly all the cardiac pacemaker implantations in children in The Netherlands from 1963 through mid-1979. Five infants and 71 older children received a pacemaker for a total of 184 patient years. Two of the infants died within a week of birth; four children died after the pacemaker failed to control a sick sinus syndrome, which in three of them developed after a Mustard operation for transposition of the great arteries. A seventh death was due to a myocardial infarction soon after the implantation. In addition to the initial implantations a further 82 operations were necessary in 32 children for various reasons, intolerance to wires or to the pacing unit being the most frequent.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02427037
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