Optimizing the AV delay in DDD pacemaker patients with high degree AV block: Mitral valve Doppler versus impedance cardiography

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 10 I, 1997, Pages 2453-2462

  Kindermann, Michael ^a   Fröhlig, Gerd ^a   Doerr, Thomas ^a   Schieffer, Hermann ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AV block; AV interval; Doppler echocardiography; Dual chamber pacing; Impedance cardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULSE GENERATOR;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030701597     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06085.x     Document Type: Article

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