Multi-center clinical experience with a lumenless, catheter-delivered, bipolar, permanent pacemaker lead: Implant safety and electrical performance

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 858-865

  Gammage, Michael D ^a   Lieberman, Randy A ^b   Yee, Raymond ^c   Manolis, Antonis S ^d   Compton, Steven J ^e   Khazen, César ^f   Schaaf, Katie ^g   Oleson, Kimberly A ^g   Crossley, George H ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e Department of Electrophysiology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^h Baptist Hospital Nashville   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac function; Catheters; Lead failure; Pacemaker leads

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; FOLLOW UP; GUIDE WIRE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; P WAVE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERFORMANCE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; R WAVE; SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747116031     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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