Clinical advantage of neutral anode positioning feature in recent pacemaker generator

Journal of UOEH

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-22

  Abe, Haruhiko ^a   Oginosawa, Yasushi ^a   Kawakami, Kazunobu ^a   Nagatomo, Toshihisa ^b   Nakashima, Yasuhide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b School of Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipolar; Generator; Neutral anode positioning; Pacemaker; Unipolar

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; DEVICE; FEMALE; GENERATOR; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; POLARIZATION; PULSE GENERATOR;

EID: 0037348032     PISSN: 0387821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7888/juoeh.25.13     Document Type: Article

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