Paradoxical undersensing at a high sensitivity in dual chamber pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 308-315

  Willems, RiK ^a   Holemans, Patricia ^a   Ector, Hugo ^a   Van De Werf, Frans ^a   Heidbüchel, Hein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Interference; Mode switching; Pacing; Sensing; Undersensing

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINUS RHYTHM;

EID: 0035069415     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2001.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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