Implications of mechanism of bradycardia on response to pacing in patients with unexplained syncope

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 312-318

  Sud, Sachin ^a   Klein, George J ^a   Skanes, Allan C ^a   Gula, Lorne J ^a   Yee, Raymond ^a   Krahn, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bradycardia; Diagnosis; Monitoring; Pacemaker; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 34447546855     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum020     Document Type: Article

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