High incidence of pacemaker syndrome in patients with sinus node dysfunction treated with ventricular-based pacing in the Mode Selection Trial (MOST)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2066-2071

  Link, Mark S ^a   Hellkamp, Anne S ^b   Estes III, N A Mark ^a   Orav, E John ^c   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^d   Ibrahim, Bassiema ^e   Greenspon, Arnold ^f   Rizo Patron, Carlos ^g   Goldman, Lee ^h   Lee, Kerry L ^b   Lamas, Gervasio A ⁱ  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Cardiology Associates of Lubbock   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ Miami Heart Inst   (United States)

Author keywords

36 item Short Form; atrioventricular; AV; Canadian Trial of Physiologic Pacing; CI; confidence interval; CTOPP; DDDR; dual chamber pacing; hazard ratio; HR; Mode Selection Trial; MOST; SF 36; VA; ventricular based (pacing); ventriculoatrial; VVIR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PACEMAKER SYNDROME; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SYNCOPE; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542420711     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2003.10.072     Document Type: Article

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