Efficacy and safety of bipolar sensing with high atrial sensitivity in dual chamber pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 427-433

  Wiegand, Uwe K H ^a   Bode, Frank ^a   Peters, Werner ^a   Haase, Henning ^a   Bonnemeier, Hendrik ^a   Katus, Hugo A ^a   Potratz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial sensing; Automatic mode switch; Bipolar electrodes; Dual chamber pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORMANCE; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; TELEMETRY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 0034050105     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00822.x     Document Type: Article

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