Dual-site right atrial pacing increases left atrial appendage flow in patients with sick sinus syndrome and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-27

  Stockburger, Martin ^a   Bartels, Ralf ^b   Gerhardt, Lars ^a   Butter, Christian ^c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Kardiologische Praxis Westend   (Germany)

^c Evangelisch Freikirchliches Krankenhaus und Herzzentrum Brandenburg in Bernau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Echocardiography; Pacing

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LEAD; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PULMONARY VEIN; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

EID: 33846270717     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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