Bugs and clots: the value of transesophageal echocardiography in defining permanent pacemaker lead infections

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Kul Aggarwal et al. J Invasive Cardiol. 2006 Dec.

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¹ Division of Cardiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA. aggarwalk@health.missouri.edu

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