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MYOCARDIAL ELECTRODE IMPLANTATIONS: INDICATIONS AND ADVANTAGES *
Author(s) -
Morris J. D.,
Judge R. D.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1969.tb34161.x
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , library science , citation , annals , gerontology , medicine , computer science , classics , history , chemistry , crystallography
The enthusiasm of the cardiology community for permanent cardiac pacing by the transvenous endocardial electrode threatened the transthoracic myocardial electrode system of pacing with obsolescence. Increased ease of installation and a negligible surgical morbidity have continued to be the outstanding virtues of endocardial pacing. Experience with 263 patients? receiving implantable pacemakers since 1961 suggests that both systems have basic advantages and that neither should be replaced entirely by the other.