Acute performance of steroid-eluting screw-in leads for atrial free wall pacing

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 514-516

  Nakazato, Yuji ^a,c   Nakata, Yasuro ^b   Mineta, Yoriaki ^a   Nakazato, Kaoru ^a   Yasuda, Masayuki ^a   Sumiyoshi, Masataka ^a   Yamaguchi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Division of Cardiology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular block; Right atrium; Sick sinus syndrome; Strength duration curve; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PULSE WAVE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0346977963     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.514     Document Type: Article

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