Stroke in paced patients with sick sinus syndrome: Relevance of atrial mechanical function, pacing mode and clinical characteristics

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 264-270

  Mattioli, Anna Vittoria ^a   Castellani, Emma Tarabini ^a   Fusco, Antonio ^a   Paolilio, Claudio ^a   Mattioli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacing; CT scan; Sick sinus Syndrome; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISCERA;

EID: 1842296319     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177341     Document Type: Article

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