Permanent atrial pacing in cardiac transplant patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 10 I, 1997, Pages 2398-2404

  Woodard, David A ^a,b   Conti, Jamie B ^a   Mills Jr , Roger M ^a   Williams, Roger A ^a   Curtis, Anne B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box 100277 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac transplants; Pacemakers; Physiological pacing; Sinus node dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART BLOCK; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030714677     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06077.x     Document Type: Article

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