Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital ...
The adverse effects of forced ventricular desynchronization probably explain the difficulty in demonstrating a mortality and stroke benefit with physiological compared to ventricular (VVIR) pacing in ...
Modern pacing systems are composed of a pulse generator and a lead (Figure 1). The pulse generator has a roughly circular shape (4-5 cm diameter) and weighs approximately 25-30 g. [32] The pulse ...