Unconventional treatment of infectious device protrusion after elective pacemaker generator exchange
Tardu Özkartal1, Marcello Di Valentino1,2, Andrea Menafoglio1
1Department of Cardiology, Ospedale San Giovanni, Via Ospedale 12, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
European Heart Journal
|October 18, 2019
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