Exercise response of the recipient atrial remnant after orthotopic cardiac transplantation: Implications for recipient atrial triggered pacing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11 II, 1998, Pages 2331-2337

  Holt, Nicola D ^a   Brady, Steven ^a   Dark, John H ^a   McComb, Janet M ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac transplantation; Chronotropic competence; Exercise testing; Permanent pacemakers; Recipient atrial remnant

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; CHRONOTROPISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE;

ATRIAL FUNCTION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0031753470     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb01177.x     Document Type: Article

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