Follow-Up of a Minute Ventilation Rate Adaptive Pacemaker |
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Authors: | HUI LI SHARON A. NEUBAUER DAVID L. HAYES |
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Affiliation: | Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota;Department of Cardiology, 1st University Hospital, Chengdu, People's Republic of China |
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Abstract: | Although rate adaptive pacemakers are now frequently prescribed, there is limited information regarding long-term follow-up of patients with a pacemaker capable of rate adaptation. We have examined our patients in whom a pacemaker capable of rate adaptation via a sensor that determines minute ventilation has been implanted. After following a group of 42 patients for a mean of 13.2 months we have found this to be a reliable rate adaptive pacing system. The sensor was reliable long term, the system is easy to program, and sensor settings were changed infrequently. |
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Keywords: | rate adaptive pacemaker minute ventilation sensor pacemaker follow-up |
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