Atrial overdrive pacing to prevent atrial fibrillation: Insights from ASSERT

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1667-1673

  Hohnloser, Stefan H ^a   Healey, Jeff S ^b   Gold, Michael R ^c   Israel, Carsten W ^a   Yang, Sean ^b   Van Gelder, Isabelle ^d   Capucci, Alessandro ^e   Lau, Chu P ^f   Fain, Eric ^g   Morillo, Carlos A ^a   Ha, Andrew ^b   Carlson, Mark ^g   Connolly, Stuart J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Thoraxcenter   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^f St Mary's Hospital   (Hong Kong)

^g ST JUDE MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Pacemaker; Preventive pacing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTINUOUS ATRIAL OVERDRIVE PACING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMBOLISM; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PALPITATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866729782     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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