Diagnosis of atrial undersensing in dual chamber pacemakers: Impact of autodiagnostic features

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 894-902

  Wiegand, Uwe K H ^a   Bode, Frank ^a   Schneider, Regina ^a   Brandes, Axel ^a   Haase, Henning ^a   Katus, Hugo A ^a   Potratz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial sensing; Autodiagnostic features; Dual chamber pacemaker; Holter monitoring; Treadmill exercise; VDD pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BODY POSITION; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOGRAM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; TELEMETRY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART BLOCK; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032971419     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb06813.x     Document Type: Article

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