Permanent and Temporary Single-Lead VDD and DDD Pacing: State of the Art

The Fifth Decade of Cardiac Pacing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 135-144

  Ovsyshcher, I Eli ^a   Crystal, Eugene ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Schulich Heart Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antiarrhythmia devices; Diagonal atrial bipolar; Single chamber ventricular pacing; Sinus node disease; Vena cava atrial stimulation (VECATS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954232322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988404.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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