Implantable cardiac pacemakers - 50 years from the first implantation

Zdravniski Vestnik

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-67

  Magjarević, Ratko ^a   Ferek Petrić, Božidar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Medtronic BV   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Heart management; Heart therapy; Implantable pacemaker; Intracardial ECG signal processing; Rate adaptive

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951869053     PISSN: 13180347     EISSN: 15810224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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