How reliable is atrial sensing in single-lead VDD pacing: Comparison of three systems

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11 II, 1998, Pages 2226-2231

  Nowak, Bernd ^a   Middeldorf, Thomas ^a   Voigtländer, Thomas ^a   Rosocha, Stefan ^a   Liebrich, Andreas ^a   Zellerhoff, Christian ^a   Przibille, Oliver ^a   Himmrich, Ewald ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial sensing threshold; Atrial sensitivity; Atrial undersensing; AV synchrony; Far field sensing; VDD pacing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BIOSENSOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; P WAVE; PATIENT MONITORING;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031753007     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb01157.x     Document Type: Review

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