Steroid-eluting electrodes prevent chronic pacing threshold rise in the atrial chamber after oral propafenone administration

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2 I, 1997, Pages 240-244

  Cornacchia, Daniele ^a   Fabbri, Mauro ^a   Maresta, Aleardo ^a   Puglisi, Andrea ^b   Ricci, Renato ^b   Azzolini, Paolo ^b   Nigro, Pasquale ^c   Sorrentino, Francesco ^c   Sestu, Piero ^d   Sanna, Antonio ^d   Villani, Giovanni Quinto ^e   Dieci, Giovanni ^e   Capucci, Alessandro ^e   De Seta, Francesco ^f  

^a Ospedale per gli Infermi di Faenza   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d San Michele Hospital   (Italy)

^e Ospedale Civile   (Italy)

^f Medtronic Italia   (Italy)

Author keywords

pacing threshold; propafenone

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYPROPAFENONE; PROPAFENONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROPAFENONE;

EID: 8044220899     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06167.x     Document Type: Article

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