Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and high degree AV block: Use of single- lead VDDR pacing with mode switching

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1927-1933

  Nowak, Bernd ^a   Voigtl̊ånder, Thomas ^a   Rosocha, Stefan ^a   Liebrich, Andreas ^a   Zellerhoff, Christian ^a   Przibille, Oliver ^a   Geil, Stephanie ^a   Himmrich, Ewald ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; AV block; Mode switching; Single lead VDD pacing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART PACING; TACHYCARDIA;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031689233     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00012.x     Document Type: Article

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