Open AccessCardiomyopathy Induced by Artificial Heart Stimulation
Author(s) -
Silas dos Santos Galvão Filho
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
estima
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2595-7007
pISSN - 1806-3144
DOI - 10.30886/jca.v32n4.980_in
Subject(s) - cardiology , medicine , cardiomyopathy , heart failure , atrioventricular block , heart block , cardiac pacing , natural history , artificial heart , electrocardiography
With the advent of cardiac pacemakers more than 60 years ago, the era of artificial cardiac pacing began, which changed the natural history of symptomatic bradycardias, significantly increasing the survival especially of patients with complete atrioventricular block.