Comparison of a novel, single-lead atrial sensing system with a dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator system in patients without antibradycardia pacing indications results of a randomized study

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-63

  Sticherling, Christian ^a   Zabel, Markus ^b   Spencker, Sebastian ^c   Meyerfeldt, Udo ^d   Eckardt, Lars ^e   Behrens, Steffen ^f   Niehaus, Michael ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Schwarzwald Baar Klinikum   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f VIVANTES HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^g HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implantable defibrillator; Sudden cardiac death; Tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROGRAPHY; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ELECTROGRAM; HEART RATE AND RHYTHM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; AGED; ALGORITHM; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BRADYCARDIA; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 79953803282     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.958397     Document Type: Article

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