Dual-demand pacing for reciprocating atrioventricular tachycardia.
- 8 May 1976
- Vol. 1 (6018), 1114-1116
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.6018.1114
Abstract
By using programmed electrical stimulation of the heart and studying the initiation and termination of reciprocating atrioventricular tachycardia two patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome were shown to respond rapidly and consistently to fixed-rate pacing. A demand pacemaker was implanted in each patient, having been modified so as to switch into the fixed-rate mode whenever the tachycardia began, thereby terminating the arrhythmia. This appears to be a promising form of treatment in patients with otherwise intractable paroxysmal tachycardia who have been shown by careful study to respond in this way.Keywords
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