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- Title
Cross-Stimulation: The Unexpected Stimulation of the Unpaced Chamber.
- Authors
Levine, Paul A.; Rihanek, Bretton D.; Sanders, Richard; Sholder, Jason
- Abstract
The ability to stimulate one chamber through a lead or output circuit to the opposite cardiac chamber is termed cross-stimulation. Three examples of this phenomenon are presented. The first involves the close proximity of the atrial lead to the ventricular myocardium with ventricular capture occurring ut sufficiently high outputs; the second is due to the basic design of dual unipolor pacing systems which have output circuits that share a common anode; the third is a self-limited eccentricity of one device that occurs only during the first phase of magnet-induced asynchronous pacing. The mechanism and clinical significance of these observations are discussed.
- Subjects
MYOCARDIUM; CARDIAC pacing; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BIOMAGNETISM; ARRHYTHMIA treatment; ELECTRIC stimulation
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 1985, Vol 8, Issue 4, p600
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.1985.tb05865.x