ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices—Summary Article

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2002 • 6,657 citations

Improved Survival with an Implanted Defibrillator in Patients with Coronary Disease at High Risk for Ventricular Arrhythmia

1996 • 4,078 citations

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION IN CHRONIC HEART FAILURE

2002 • 3,779 citations

A Comparison of Antiarrhythmic-Drug Therapy with Implantable Defibrillators in Patients Resuscitated from Near-Fatal Ventricular Arrhythmias

1997 • 3,117 citations

Effects of Multisite Biventricular Pacing in Patients with Heart Failure and Intraventricular Conduction Delay

2001 • 2,717 citations

A Randomized Study of the Prevention of Sudden Death in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

1999 • 2,485 citations

ACC/AHA guidelines for the evaluation and management of chronic heart failure in the adult: executive summary

2001 • 1,942 citations

ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction

1996 • 1,888 citations

Canadian Implantable Defibrillator Study (CIDS)

2000 • 1,583 citations

Randomized Comparison of Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy With Implantable Defibrillators in Patients Resuscitated From Cardiac Arrest

2000 • 1,450 citations

ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Revise the 1995 Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Heart Failure)

2001 • 1,429 citations

Termination of Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias with an Implanted Automatic Defibrillator in Human Beings

1980 • 1,341 citations

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations.

1980 • 1,051 citations

Natural History of Brugada Syndrome

2002 • 1,043 citations

Prophylactic Use of Implanted Cardiac Defibrillators in Patients at High Risk for Ventricular Arrhythmias after Coronary-Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1997 • 1,015 citations

Ventricular Pacing or Dual-Chamber Pacing for Sinus-Node Dysfunction

2002 • 970 citations

ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction

1996 • 964 citations

Identification of reentry circuit sites during catheter mapping and radiofrequency ablation of ventricular tachycardia late after myocardial infarction.

1993 • 876 citations

Catheter Technique for Closed-Chest Ablation of the Atrioventricular Conduction System

1982 • 753 citations

Long-term outcome with the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

1989 • 734 citations

1999 update: ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction

1999 • 547 citations

Radiofrequency catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in patients without structural heart disease.

1992 • 497 citations

Assessment of Permanent Dual-Chamber Pacing as a Treatment for Drug-Refractory Symptomatic Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

1999 • 495 citations

The North American vasovagal pacemaker study (VPS)

1999 • 478 citations

The Multicentre European Radiofrequency Survey (MERFS): Complications of radiofrequency catheter ablation of arrhythmias

1993 • 465 citations

Clinical Spectrum of the Sick Sinus Syndrome

1972 • 451 citations

Radiofrequency catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in patients with coronary artery disease.

1993 • 431 citations

Dual-Chamber Pacing in the Treatment of Neurally Mediated Tilt-Positive Cardioinhibitory Syncope

2000 • 405 citations

The long QT syndrome in children. An international study of 287 patients.

1993 • 399 citations

Congenital heart block: development of late-onset cardiomyopathy, a previously underappreciated sequela

2001 • 394 citations

Congenital complete heart block: an international study of the natural history.

1972 • 390 citations

Effects of dual-chamber pacing with short atrioventricular delay in dilated cardiomyopathy

1992 • 381 citations

Long-term results of dual-chamber (DDD) pacing in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Evidence for progressive symptomatic and hemodynamic improvement and reduction of left ventricular hypertrophy.

1994 • 380 citations

Dual-Chamber Pacing for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Crossover Trial

1997 • 376 citations

Blunt Impact to the Chest Leading to Sudden Death from Cardiac Arrest during Sports Activities

1995 • 359 citations

Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators and Survival of Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias

1988 • 342 citations

Prevention of recurrent atrial fibrillation with chronic dual-site right atrial pacing

1996 • 323 citations

Natural History of High-Risk Bundle-Branch Block

1982 • 323 citations

Pacing in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: A randomized crossover study

1997 • 300 citations

Permanent Cardiac Pacing Versus Medical Treatment for the Prevention of Recurrent Vasovagal Syncope

2001 • 299 citations

Lyme Carditis: An Important Cause of Reversible Heart Block

1989 • 296 citations

Isolated Congenital Complete Atrioventricular Block in Adult Life

1995 • 287 citations

Electrophysiological testing and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. Use and limitations in patients with coronary artery disease and impaired ventricular function.

1990 • 277 citations

Catheter ablation of the atrioventricular junction with radiofrequency energy.

1989 • 249 citations

Value of the H-Q interval in patients with bundle branch block and the role of prophylactic permanent pacing

1982 • 247 citations

Randomized Study of Implantable Defibrillator as First-Choice Therapy Versus Conventional Strategy in Postinfarct Sudden Death Survivors

1995 • 240 citations

Some Clinical Features of Complete Heart Block

1956 • 228 citations

Results of the International Study of the Implantable Pacemaker Cardioverter-Defibrillator

1995 • 226 citations

Arrhythmia and prognosis in infants, children and adolescents with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

1988 • 223 citations

Efficacy of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in prolonging survival in patients with severe underlying cardiac disease

1990 • 217 citations

Survival in sinoatrial disorder (sick-sinus syndrome).

1980 • 208 citations

Influence of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators on the long-term prognosis of survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

1993 • 200 citations

Efficacy of permanent pacing in the management of high-risk patients with long QT syndrome.

1991 • 197 citations

Recommendations for pacemaker prescription for symptomatic bradycardia

1991 • 197 citations

Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in 136 patients with coronary artery disease: Results and long-term follow-up

1994 • 189 citations

The clinical significance of bundle branch block complicating acute myocardial infarction. 2. Indications for temporary and permanent pacemaker insertion.

1978 • 184 citations

Effect of dual-chamber pacing on systolic and diastolic function in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Acute doppler echocardiographic and catheterization hemodynamic study

1996 • 180 citations

Survival after implantation of the cardioverter defibrillator

1992 • 177 citations

The incidence and mortality of intraventricular conduction defects in acute myocardial infarction

1972 • 163 citations

Significance of block distal to the His bundle induced by atrial pacing in patients with chronic bifascicular block.

1979 • 160 citations

Permanent cardiac pacing in patients with the long QT syndrome

1987 • 160 citations

Clinical experience with a tiered-therapy, multiprogrammable antiarrhythmia device.

1992 • 156 citations

Mode of onset of torsade de pointes in congenital long QT syndrome

1996 • 155 citations

The Natural History of Primary First-Degree Atrioventricular Heart Block

1986 • 150 citations

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

1994 • 149 citations

The Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator in Drug-Refractory Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias

1987 • 149 citations

Observations on the cardiovascular involvement, including the cardiac conduction system, in progressive muscular dystrophy

1962 • 148 citations

Clinical outcome of patients with malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias and a multiprogrammable implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implanted with or without thoracotomy: An international multicenter study

1994 • 147 citations

Combined use of beta-adrenergic blocking agents and long-term cardiac pacing for patients with the long QT syndrome

1992 • 146 citations

Value of ventricular electrogram recordings in the diagnosis of arrhythmias precipitating electrical device shock therapy

1991 • 143 citations

Patient Acceptance of the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator in Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias

1993 • 143 citations

Prognostic value of infranodal conduction time in patients with chronic bundle branch block.

1977 • 141 citations

NONSURGICAL ACQUIRED HEART BLOCK*

1964 • 140 citations

Electrophysiologic testing in bundle branch block and unexplained syncope

1984 • 140 citations

The automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator as antiarrhythmic treatment modality of choice for survivors of cardiac arrest unrelated to acute myocardial infarction

1988 • 137 citations

Smooth muscle cell proliferation and restenosis after stand alone coronary excimer laser angioplasty

1991 • 136 citations

Syncope in Patients with Chronic Bifascicular Block

1974 • 136 citations

Natural history of chronic second-degree atrioventricular nodal block.

1981 • 135 citations

Cardiac Pacing

1996 • 134 citations

The Significance of Second Degree Atrioventricular Block and Bundle Branch Block

1974 • 134 citations

Neurally mediated syncope detected by carotid sinus massage and head-up tilt test in sick sinus syndrome

1991 • 133 citations

Survival in second degree atrioventricular block.

1985 • 133 citations

Benefits and Potential Risks of Atrial Antitachycardia Pacing After Repair of Congenital Heart Disease

1995 • 132 citations

Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in the Congenital Long QT Syndrome

1996 • 131 citations

Cardiac involvement in myotonic muscular dystrophy (Steinert's disease): A prospective study of 25 patients

1984 • 131 citations

Use of Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring to Identify High-Risk Patients with Congenital Complete Heart Block

1987 • 129 citations

Prognosis for patients with congenital heart disease and postoperative intraventricular conduction defects.

1978 • 129 citations

CHRONIC POSTSURGICAL COMPLETE HEART BLOCK. WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PROGNOSIS, MANAGEMENT, AND A NEW P-WAVE PACEMAKER.

1963 • 127 citations

Indications, Effectiveness, and Long-Term Dependency in Permanent Pacing After Cardiac Surgery

1997 • 126 citations

Design and Results of the Antiarrhythmics vs Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) Registry

1999 • 124 citations

Prognosis of Patients with Complete Heart Block or Arrhythmic Syncope

1976 • 124 citations

Diagnosis, Management, and Long-Term Results of Patients with Congenital Complete Atrioventricular Block

1982 • 122 citations

Reduction in defibrillator shocks with an implantable device combining antitachycardia pacing and shock therapy

1991 • 122 citations

Anxiety and Anger in Patients with Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias. Responses after Automatic Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator Implantation

1989 • 121 citations

Sudden Death in Patients With Chronic Bifascicular Block

1977 • 121 citations

Cardiac conduction in the kearns-sayre syndrome (a neuromuscular disorder associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy)

1979 • 116 citations

Observations on the cardiovascular involvement in Friedreich's ataxia

1963 • 116 citations

Effect of Dual-Chamber Pacing With Automatic Rate-Drop Sensing on Recurrent Neurally Mediated Syncope

1998 • 116 citations

Myocardial ultrastructure and the development of atrioventricular block in Kearns-Sayre syndrome.

1981 • 114 citations

Pharmacological and device approach to therapy of inherited cardiac diseases associated with cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death

2000 • 113 citations

CHRONIC POSTSURGICAL COMPLETE HEART BLOCK

1963 • 112 citations

Role of electrophysiologic testing in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with known and suspected bradycardias and tachycardias

1981 • 112 citations

Complete heart block. A clinical, hemodynamic and pharmacological study in patients with and without an artificial pacemaker.

1966 • 111 citations

DDD Pacing: An Effective Treatment Modality for Recurrent Atrial Arrhythmias

1988 • 109 citations

Association of right bundle-branch block with left superior or inferior intraventricular block. Its relation to complete heart block and Adams-Stokes syndrome.

1969 • 107 citations

Sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

1992 • 104 citations

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: Evidence for selective, genetic electrophysiologic cardiac involvement

1990 • 103 citations

Incidence of Unwarranted Implantation of Permanent Cardiac Pacemakers in a Large Medical Population

1988 • 103 citations

Long-term multicenter experience with a second-generation implantable pacemaker-defibrillator in patients with malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias

1992 • 103 citations

Natural history of combined right bundle branch block and left anterior hemiblock (bilateral bundle branch block)

1973 • 103 citations

Influence of the Implantable Cardioverter/Defibrillator on Sudden Death and Total Mortality in Patients Evaluated for Cardiac Transplantation

1995 • 101 citations

Complete atrioventricular block after valvular heart surgery and the timing of pacemaker implantation

2001 • 101 citations

Multicenter experience with a pectoral unipolar implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

1996 • 100 citations

Diagnostic value of programmed ventricular stimulation in patients with bifascicular block: A prospective study of patients with and without syncope

1995 • 99 citations

His Bundle Electrogram in Bundle-Branch Block

1972 • 99 citations

Cost-effectiveness of Implantable Defibrillator as First-Choice Therapy Versus Electrophysiologically Guided, Tiered Strategy in Postinfarct Sudden Death Survivors

1996 • 99 citations

Congenital complete heart block in patients without anatomic cardiac defects

1989 • 97 citations

Chronic sinus node disease: natural course and indications for pacing

1981 • 95 citations

Role of invasive electrophysiologic testing in patients with symptomatic bundle branch block

1987 • 94 citations

Long-term prognosis after acute anterior infarction with atrioventricular block.

1977 • 92 citations

Prophylactic permanent pacemakers for patients with chronic bundle branch block

1979 • 90 citations

Electrophysiologic evaluation of syncope in patients with bifascicular block

1983 • 83 citations

Unusual forms of second-degree atrioventricular block, including Mobitz Type-II block, associated with the Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome

1964 • 80 citations

Permanent pacing in patients with transient trifascicular block during acute myocardial infarction

1976 • 80 citations

Pseudo‐Pacemaker Syndrome Following Inadvertent Fast Pathway Ablation for Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia

1993 • 77 citations

Bundle branch block and sudden death

1980 • 77 citations

Infants with long-QT syndrome and 2:1 atrioventricular block

1995 • 76 citations

A simplified method to predict occurrence of complete heart block during acute myocardial infarction

1986 • 74 citations

Comparison of d,l -Sotalol and Implantable Defibrillators for Treatment of Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia or Fibrillation in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

1996 • 73 citations

Long-Term efficacy of antitachycardia pacing for supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias

1987 • 72 citations

Dynamic Electrocardiography and Ventricular Pauses of 3 Seconds and More: Etiology and Therapeutic Implications

1983 • 67 citations

Interventional electrophysiology

1996 • 62 citations

Hemodynamic and electrophysiologic evaluation of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy surviving cardiac arrest

1991 • 58 citations

Multisite electrode pacing for prevention of atrial fibrillation.

1998 • 58 citations

Primary sick sinus syndrome as an indication for chronic pacemaker therapy in young adults: Incidence, clinical features, and long-term evaluation

1982 • 57 citations

Surgical Treatment of Complete Heart Block

1964 • 55 citations

Survival in Patients With Intraventricular Conduction Defects

1978 • 54 citations

Myotonic dystrophy: Ambulatory electrocardiogram, electrophysiologic study, and echocardiographic evaluation

1987 • 53 citations

Permanent demand pacing for hypersensitive carotid sinus syndrome.

1973 • 50 citations

Bradyarrhythmias: Clinical significance and management

1983 • 49 citations

Usefulness of an implantable antitachycardia pacemaker system for supraventricular or ventricular tachycardia

1986 • 49 citations

Atrial pacing: Its diagnostic and therapeutic applications

1971 • 48 citations

Survival in Patients with Depressed Left Ventricular Function Treated by Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

1991 • 47 citations

Experience with Implantable Pacemakers Using Myocardial Electrodes in the Management of Heart Block

1967 • 47 citations

Atrioventricular Block

1975 • 47 citations

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in survivors of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac death without inducible arrhythmias

1993 • 46 citations

Dual-Chamber Pacing for Cardiomyopathies: A 1996 Clinical Perspective

1996 • 43 citations

AICD™ Automatic Cardioverier Defibrillator Clinical Update: 14 Years Experience in Over 34,000 Patients

1995 • 42 citations

A Double‐Blind Study of Submaximal Exercise Tolerance and Variation in Paced Rate in Atrial Synchronous Compared to Activity Sensor Modulated Ventricular Pacing

1992 • 42 citations

Clinical Experience with Implantable Scanning Tachycardia Reversion Pacemakers

1984 • 40 citations

Benefit of Single Setting Rate Responsive Ventricular Pacing Compared with Fixed Rate Demand Pacing in Elderly Patients

1991 • 40 citations

Clinical Experience with Implantable Devices for Control of Tachyarrhythmias

1984 • 39 citations

Implanted Atrial Pacemakers for Paroxysmal Atrial Flutter

1987 • 38 citations

Long‐term Management of Recurrent Paroxysmal Tachycardia by Cardiac Burst Pacing

1985 • 38 citations

Electrophysiological Testing of Sinus Node Function: Diagnostic and Prognostic Application‐Including Updated Information From Sinus Node Electrograms

1994 • 37 citations

NONSURGICAL ACQUIRED HEART BLOCK*

1963 • 35 citations

Atrial antitachycardia pacing in children and young adults

1991 • 34 citations

CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDY FINDINGS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC BIFASCICULAR BLOCK AND SYNCOPE

1988 • 34 citations

Congenital complete heart block associated with QT prolongation

1992 • 33 citations

Intraventricular conduction disturbances in acute myocardial infarction: short- and long-term prognosis.

1980 • 33 citations

The role of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in dilated cardiomyopathy

1994 • 30 citations

Device Use Patterns and Clinical Outcome of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Patients with Moderate and Severe Impairment of Left Ventricular Function

1993 • 30 citations

The HQ time in congestive cardiomyopathies

1979 • 27 citations

Nonpharmacological therapy for malignant ventricular arrhythmias: Implantable defibrillator trials

1996 • 25 citations

Sinuatrial disease in young people.

1981 • 25 citations

Should an abnormal serum potassium concentration be considered a correctable cause of cardiac arrest?

2001 • 20 citations

The impact of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators on mortality among patients on the waiting list for heart transplantation

1995 • 19 citations

Cardiomyopathy and the Use of Implanted Cardio‐Defibrillators in Children

1990 • 17 citations

Comparison of Clinical Benefits and Outcome in Patients with Programmable and Nonprogrammable Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

1992 • 17 citations

The medical and surgical determinants of heart transplantation outcomes: the results of a consensus survey in the United States.

1993 • 15 citations

Relationship Between Serum Potassium Concentration and Risk of Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia or Ventricular Fibrillation

2001 • 13 citations

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1955 • 0 citations