Far-field R wave oversensing in dual chamber pacemakers designed for atrial arrhythmia management: Effect of pacing site and lead tip to ring distance

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1221-1230

  Inama, Giuseppe ^a,k   Santini, Massimo ^b   Padeletti, Luigi ^c   Boriani, Giuseppe ^d   Botto, Gianluca ^e   Capucci, Alessandro ^f   Gulizia, Michele ^g   Ricci, Renato ^b   Rizzon, Paolo ^h   Ferri, Fabio ⁱ   Miraglia, Francesco ^j   Raneri, Rossana ^j   Grammatico, Andrea ^j  

^a MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f Civile Hospital   (Italy)

^g S Luigi S Currò Hospital   (Italy)

^h POLICLINICO   (Italy)

ⁱ Institute of Cardiology   (Italy)

^j Medtronic Italia   (Italy)

^k Cardiology Dept Maggiore Hospital   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Atrial tachyarrhythmia; Far field oversensing; Pacing site; Tip to ring distance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CORONARY SINUS; DEVICE; DUAL CHAMBER PACEMAKER; FAR FIELD R WAVE OVERSENSING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LEAD TIP TO RING DISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; R WAVE; REMOTE SENSING; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL;

EID: 4644242644     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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