Diagnostic and Therapeutic Uses of Atrial Pacing
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Diagnostic and therapeutic uses of atrial pacing.
There are occasions when atrial pacing can be usefully employed both diagnostically and therapeutically. Diagnostically, atrial pacing provides mechanisms for easily, safely, and reproducibly stressing the heart that can help in the evaluation of patients with a variety of cardiac disorders. It is particularly useful in the assessment of patients with coronary disease. Therapeutically, atrial p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.43.5.748