Electrophysiological studies in thyrotoxicosis with and without associated sick sinus syndrome
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Patients With Sick Sinus Syndrome
Background. The goal of the report was to study the long-term incidence and the independent predictors for chronic atrial fibrillation and stroke in 507 paced patients with sick sinus syndrome, adjusting for differences in baseline clinical variables with multivariate analysis. Methods and Results. From 1980 to 1989, we implanted 376 dual-chamber, 19 atrial, and 112 ventricular pacemakers to tr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cardiology
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0160-9289,1932-8737
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960100408