Programmable multiple pacing configurations help to overcome high left ventricular pacing thresholds and avoid phrenic nerve stimulation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1255-1259

  Gurevitz, Osnat ^a,b   Nof, Eyal ^a,b   Carasso, Shemy ^a,b   Luria, David ^a,b   Bar Lev, David ^a,b   Tanami, Nechemya ^c   Eldar, Michael ^a,b   Glikson, Michael ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Levant Technologies Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacemakers; Heart failure; Pacing configuration; Resynchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HIGH LEFT VENTRICULAR PACING THRESHOLD; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PHRENIC NERVE; PROGRAMMABLE MULTIPLE PACING CONFIGURATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART PACING; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; PHRENIC NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33645058448     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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