Usefulness of echocardiography to predict inappropriate atrial sensing in single-lead VDD pacing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1344-1347

  De Cock, Carel C ^a   Van Campen, Linda C M C ^a   Huygens, Jeroen ^a   Kamp, Otto ^a   Visser, Cees A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrial sensing; Echocardiography; VDD pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032843648     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00627.x     Document Type: Article

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