His bundle pacing: Initial experience and lessons learned
Amrish Deshmukh1, Pramod Deshmukh2
1Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 6092, Chicago, IL.
Journal of Electrocardiology
|September 4, 2016
Abstract:
Direct His bundle pacing provides the most physiologic means of artificial pacing of the ventricles with a preserved His-Purkinje system and may play a role in patients with a diseased intrinsic conduction system. We describe our initial motivations and experience with permanent direct His bundle pacing and important lessons learned since that time.
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