Italian experience with AutoCapture in conjunction with a membrane lead

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11 II, 1996, Pages 1799-1804

  Sermasi, Sergio ^a   Marconi, Marco ^a   Libero, Luigi ^b   Moracchini, Pier Vittorio ^c   Rusconi, Luigi ^d   Mininno, Antonio ^e   Sigliano, Riccardo ^e  

^a Osp Infermi   (Italy)

^b MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Nuovo Ospedale S Agostino   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Ceccarini   (Italy)

^e Div Pacesetter   (Italy)

Author keywords

AutoCapture; automatic threshold measurement; leads; Nafion; output self regulation; steroid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PACING; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULSE GENERATOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0029858963     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03228.x     Document Type: Article

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