Right pectoral implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Role of the proximal (SVC) coil

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1025-1035

  Varma, Niraj ^a,b   Efimov, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DFT; ICD; Impedance; Phase duration; Right sided; Shock waveform

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL;

ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; WAVEFORM;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 48249102680     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01130.x     Document Type: Article

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