Is atrial sensing of ventricular far-field signals important in single-lead VDD pacing?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11 II, 1998, Pages 2236-2239

  Nowak, Bernd ^a   Kramm, Berthold ^b   Schwaier, Heike ^b   Maimaitiming, Ailaiti ^a   Geil, Stephanie ^a   Zellerhoff, Christian ^a   Przibille, Oliver ^a   Rosocha, Stefan ^a   Liebrich, Andreas ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrial sensitivity; Far field sensing; Oversensing; VDD pacing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BIOSENSOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; P WAVE; QRS COMPLEX;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TELEMETRY;

EID: 0031755969     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb01159.x     Document Type: Article

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