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Rate Adaptive Dual Chamber Pacing: Inappropriate Rate Response due to Pseudomalfunction of the QT Biosensor |
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| Authors: | PEDRO DIONISIO,ROLAND STROOBANDT,FILIEP VANDENBULCKE,ALFONS SINNAEVE&dagger |
| Affiliation: | Department of Cardiology, St.-Jozef Hospital;Technical University, Ostend, Belgium |
| Abstract: | Inappropriate tachycardias may be observed in patients with DDDR pacemakers equipped with an activity sensor and a QT sensor due erroneous T wave sensing, provoked by drug treatment that prolongs cardiac repolarization. |
| Keywords: | DDDR pacemakers QT interval sensor pacemaker-mediated tachycardia) |