Five-year follow-up of a bipolar steroid-eluting ventricular pacing lead

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1226-1228

  Schwaab, Bernhard ^a   Fröhlig, Gerd ^a   Berg, Monika ^a   Schwerdt, Holger ^a   Schieffer, Hermann ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long term follow up; Pacing threshold; Steroid eluting electrode

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; IRIDIUM COMPLEX; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; SIGNAL DETECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DEXAMETHASONE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0032782316     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00604.x     Document Type: Article

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