Single-site bachmann's bundle pacing is beneficial while coronary sinus pacing results in echocardiographic right heart pacemaker syndrome in brady-tachycardia patients

Circulation Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1308-1315

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

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial pacing; Echocardiography; Hemodynamics; Right heart pacemaker syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACHMANN BUNDLE PACING; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS PACING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PACING; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTISITE ATRIAL PACING; PACEMAKER FAILURE; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; TACHYCARDIA; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954493184     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0846     Document Type: Article

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