Current of injury predicts acute performance of catheter-delivered active fixation pacing leads

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1438-1444

  Redfearn, Damian P ^a   Gula, Lorne J ^a   Krahn, Andrew D ^a   Skanes, Allan C ^a   Klein, George J ^a   Yee, Raymond ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

3830 lead; Current of injury; Fixation; Pacemaker leads

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FIXATION PACING LEAD; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CURRENT OF INJURY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAD STABILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; PACEMAKER LEAD IMPLANTATION; PARAMETER; R WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THRESHOLD ADEQUACY;

AGED; BRADYCARDIA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 36649018950     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00889.x     Document Type: Article

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