Av conduction with atrial rate adaptive pacing in the bradycardia tachycardia syndrome

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1502-1509

  Schwaab, Bernhard ^a   Fröhlig, Gerd ^a   Pistorius, Caroline ^a   Schwerdt, Holger ^a   Schieffer, Hermann ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AAIR pacing; AV block; AV conduction; Bradycardia tachycardia syndrome; DDDR pacing; Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0032754932     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00355.x     Document Type: Article

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