Microdislodgment: A likely mechanism of pacing failure with high impedance small area electrodes

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 7 I, 2003, Pages 1541-1543

  Kikuchi, Kan ^a   Abe, Haruhiko ^a   Nagatomo, Toshihisa ^a   Nakashima, Yasuhide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

High impedance; Microdislodgment; Pacing failure; Small surface

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE; DISLOCATION; ELECTRODE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0038608886     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00224.x     Document Type: Article

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