Placement of a pacing lead at the inferior portion of the interatrial septum without special tools

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Acosta, Helbert ^a   Pothula, Vijayasimha R ^a   Rodriguez, Mario ^b   Ramadas, Sumati ^b   Castellanos, Agustin ^c  

^a Trinity Medical Center   (United States)

^b ST JUDE MEDICAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial lead; Atrial septal pacing; Cardiac pacing; Inferior atrial septum pacing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL SEPTUM; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION;

EID: 33846298502     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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