Implications of marked fatty infiltration around and in the atrophic atrioventricular node in elderly patients with permanent pacemaker implantation for symptomatic sick sinus syndrome

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 343-349

  Chida, Kouji ^a,b   Imai, Tamotsu ^a,b   Taniguchi, Toru ^a,b   Maeda, Shigeru ^a,b   Watanabe, Chizuko ^a,b   Esaki, Yukiyoshi ^a   Takubo, Kaiyo ^b   Ohkawa, Shin Ichiro ^c  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrioventricular conduction disturbance; Atrioventricular node; Fatty infiltration; Sick sinus syndrome; Slow ventricular response

Indexed keywords

FAT;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; WENCKEBACH PERIOD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; ATROPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

EID: 0033020411     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.343     Document Type: Article

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