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Case Reports
. 2016 Oct;31(10):645-647.
doi: 10.1111/jocs.12824. Epub 2016 Aug 29.

Management of congenital complete heart block in a low-birth-weight infant

Keisuke Nakanishi  1 , Ken Takahashi  2 , Shiori Kawasaki  3 , Hideo Fukunaga  2 , Atsushi Amano  3
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Management of congenital complete heart block in a low-birth-weight infant

Keisuke Nakanishi et al. J Card Surg. 2016 Oct.

Abstract

Pacemaker implantation in infants during the early postnatal period is difficult because of their small body size and susceptibility to infection. We describe the successful pacemaker implantation for complete heart block in an infant weighing 803 g.

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