Stable electrical performance of high efficiency pacing leads having small surface, steroid-eluting pacing electrodes

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1599-1603

  Deshmukh, Pramod ^a,c   Casavant, David ^b   Anderson, Kathy ^a   Romanyshyn, Mary ^a  

^a Robert Packer Hospital   (United States)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^c GUTHRIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

High impedance; Pacing leads; Small electrode

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE;

EID: 0032758363     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00378.x     Document Type: Article

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