Long-term superiority of steroid elution in atrial active fixation platinum leads

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1003-1009

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active fixation; Energy consumption; Long term follow up; Steroid elution; Stimulation threshold

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ELECTRODE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MALE; SINUS NODE DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034085469     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00888.x     Document Type: Article

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