Interactions between transvenous nonthoracotomy cardioverter defibrillator systems and permanent transvenous endocardial pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3 I, 1997, Pages 624-630

  Geiger, Mary J ^a   O'Neill, Padraig ^b   Sharma, Arjun ^b   Skadsen, Anne ^b   Zimerman, Leandro ^a   Greenfield, Ruth Ann ^a   Newby, Keith H ^a   Wharton, J Marcus ^a   Kent, Virginia ^a   Natale, Andrea ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

malfunction; pacemaker; transvenous defibrillator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; PACEMAKER FAILURE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 8044261416     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03880.x     Document Type: Article

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