Interatrial conduction measured during biventricular pacemaker implantation accurately predicts optimal paced atrioventricular intervals

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 290-295

  Levin, Vadim ^a   Nemeth, Margit ^b   Colombowala, Ilyas ^b   Massumi, Ali ^b   Rasekh, Abdi ^b   Cheng, Jie ^b   Coles Jr , James A ^c   Ujhelyi, Michael R ^c   Razavi, Mehdi ^b,d  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular optimization; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Interatrial conduction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR INTERVAL; CANNULATION; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846992233     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2006.00744.x     Document Type: Article

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