VDD pacing: Under evaluated, undervalued, and underused

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1335-1338

  Ovsyshcher, I Eli ^a,c   Crystal, Eugene ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BREATHING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PATIENT SELECTION; SINUS NODE; TREATMENT INDICATION; X RAY;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTURE;

EID: 7744237429     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00635.x     Document Type: Editorial

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