Atrial fibrillation reduces the atrial impedance amplitude during cardiac cycle: A novel detection algorithm to improve recognition of atrial fibrillation in pacemaker patients

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 812-816

  Schmidt, Boris ^a   Asbach, Stefan ^a   Schweika, Oliver ^b   Zehender, Manfred ^a   Bode, Christoph ^a   Faber, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Biotronik GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac pacing; Mode switch; Myocardial impedance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETERIZATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548482961     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum106     Document Type: Article

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