A prospective randomized comparison between fixed rate response programming and automatic rate response optimization in activity-triggered DDDR pacemakers

Cardiology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-28

  Schuchert, A ^a   Van Langen, H ^b   Michels, K ^b   Meinertz, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activity rate response; Automatic rate response adjustment; DDDR pacemaker activity triggered; Pacing percentage of; Rate response optimization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART PACING; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030781959     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006739     Document Type: Article

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