Loss of atrial capture during DDD pacing: What is the mechanism?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1988-1989

  Barold, S Serge ^a  

^a Mt Sinai Medical Center Cleveland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PACING; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; MALE; QRS COMPLEX;

AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

EID: 0031685076     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00018.x     Document Type: Article

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