Atrial lead location at the Bachmann's bundle region results in a low incidence of far field R-wave sensing

Europace

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-146

  Lewicka Nowak, Ewa ^a   Kutarski, Andrzej ^b   Dabrowska Kugacka, Alicja ^a   Ruciński, Piotr ^b   Zagozdzon, Paweł ^a   Raczak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atrial blanking time; Atrial fibrillation; Atrial lead; Bachmann's bundle; Far field R wave sensing; Oversensing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPINE POSITION; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRODE; FOLLOW UP; HEART PACING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41949127501     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum277     Document Type: Article

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