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Indications for Implanting Rate-Adaptive Cardiac Pacemakers

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Rate Adaptive Cardiac Pacing

Abstract

Pacemaker therapy has developed into one of the most successful treatment methods in the field of cardiology. Initially implanted mainly to prevent Adams-Stokes attacks and to decrease the mortality of life-threatening bradycardias, pacemakers are increasingly implanted today for hemodynamic reasons, i.e. to improve the quality of life. The purpose is often not only to alleviate congestive heart failure at rest but alsoto enhance physical performance by improving cardiac output on exertion [1]. Other aims of rate-adaptive pacing are to provide an adequate rate response for different forms and levels of exercise, a rate adaptation under changing metabolic or circulatory conditions not due to exercise, a rate adaptation in terms of biorhythmics, a rate reaction in the case of emotional responses and to prevent the occurrence of especially atrial rhythm disorders.

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  1. First Medical Clinic, Technical University of Munich, 8000, Munich 80, Germany

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  1. I. Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Ismaningerstr. 22, 8000, München 80, Germany

    Eckhard Alt

  2. Genesee Hospital, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 224 Alexander Street, 14607, Rochester, New York, USA

    S. Serge Barold

  3. Bereich Medizin (Charité), Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Schumannstr. 20, 1040, Berlin, Germany

    Karl Stangl

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Alt, E., Matula, M., Heinz, M. (1993). Indications for Implanting Rate-Adaptive Cardiac Pacemakers. In: Alt, E., Barold, S.S., Stangl, K. (eds) Rate Adaptive Cardiac Pacing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76649-7_6

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