Reducing unnecessary right ventricular pacing with the managed ventricular pacing mode in patients with sinus node disease and AV block

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 697-705

  Gillis, Anne M ^a,i   Pürerfellner, Helmut ^b   Israel, Carsten W ^c   Sunthorn, Henri ^d   Kacet, Salem ^e   Anelli Monti, Michael ^f   Tang, Feng ^g   Young, Martin ^g   Boriani, Giuseppe ^h  

^a CALGARY HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

^b ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^g MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrial pacing; AV block; Sinus node disease; Ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINUS NODE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745965297     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00422.x     Document Type: Article

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