Atrial pacing is superior to venticular pacing in sick sinus syndrome;Etkammer-atriepacing er bedre end etkammer-ventrikelpacing hos patienter med syg sinusknude: Resultatet of langtidsopfølgning i en prospektiv, randomiseret undersøgelse

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 587-592

  Nielsen, Jens Cosedis ^b   Mortensen, Peter Thomas ^b   Thuesen, Leif ^b   Nielsen, Thomas Vesterlund ^b   Thomsen, Poul Erik Block ^b   Pedersen, Anders Kirstein ^b   Andersen, Henning Rud ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0033070096     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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