The first-year experience with the dual chamber ICD

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 18-25

  Higgins, Steven L ^a,b   Pak, Jonathan P ^a   Barone, Julie ^a   Williams, Seth K ^a   Bollinger, Florence M ^a   Whiting, Sherie L ^a   Meyer, David B ^a  

^a SCRIPPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Regional Cardiac Arrhythmia Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual chamber pacing; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Permanent pacemakers; Sudden death; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033966672     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00645.x     Document Type: Article

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