Dual chamber versus single chamber ventricular pacemakers for sick sinus syndrome and atrioventricular block

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Volumn 2021, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Dretzke, Janine ^a   Toff, William D ^b   Lip, Gregory YH ^a   Raftery, James ^c   Fry Smith, Anne ^a   Taylor, Rod S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART BLOCK; HEART PACING; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

EID: 3843076520     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003710.pub2     Document Type: Article

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