Right ventricular outflow tract pacing: Practical and beneficial. A 9-year experience of 460 consecutive implants

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1055-1062

  Vlay, Stephen C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate site pacing; Right ventricular outflow tract

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMPEDANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; R WAVE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

AGED; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750072287     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00498.x     Document Type: Article

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