Initial experience with 1.5-mm2 high impedance, steroid-eluting pacing electrodes

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 188-196

  Fogel, Richard ^a   Pirzada, Farouk ^a   Casavant, David ^b   Boone, John ^c   Bowman, Anthony ^c   Steinhaus, David ^c   Gilbert, Marcel ^c   Vlietstra, Ronald ^c   Belott, Peter ^c   Parsonnet, Victor ^c   Tilton, Gregory ^c   White, Melvin ^c  

^a University Hospital   (United States)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

high impedance; pacing electrode; steroid eluting; unipolar

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINUS NODE; TELEMETRY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DEXAMETHASONE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TELEMETRY;

EID: 9044243404     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03310.x     Document Type: Article

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