Selective site pacing: Rationale and practical application

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 351-359

  Parekh, Sameer ^a   Stein, Kenneth M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; DEATH; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRODE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; REVIEW; SINUS NODE DISEASE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ARTICLE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BUNDLE OF HIS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149118396     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-008-0057-6     Document Type: Review

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