Implantation strategy of the atrial dipole impacts atrial sensing performance of single lead VDD pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 316-323

  Wiegand, Uwe K H ^a   Nowak, Bernd ^a   Reisp, Udo ^a   Peiffer, Torsten ^a   Bode, Frank ^a   Potratz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implantation rules; Prediction of atrial undersensing; Single lead VDD pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; P WAVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036212311     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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