Increased base rate of atrial pacing for prevention of atrial fibrillation after implantation of a dual-chamber pacemaker: Insights from the atrial overdrive pacing study

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1024-1030

  Kantharia, Bharat K ^a,j   Freedman, Roger A ^b   Hoekenga, David ^c   Tomassoni, Gery ^d   Worley, Seth ^e   Sorrentino, Robert ^f   Steinhaus, David ^g   Wolkowicz, Joel M ^h   Syed, Zaffer A ⁱ  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Memorial Medical Center   (United States)

^d CENTRAL BAPTIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Lancaster Heart Foundation   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h CVPH Medical Center   (United States)

ⁱ ST JUDE MEDICAL   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial overdrive pacing; Cardiac pacing; Dual chamber pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART BLOCK; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ALGORITHM; HEART ATRIUM; HEART PACING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AWARENESS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REST; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 40049103823     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum170     Document Type: Article

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