During the 1980s Mayo Clinic implanters had a practice of using VVI pacemakers in SSS patients who had retrograde AV block, on the assumption that those patients would be resistant to pacemaker ...
No differences in mean walking distances were observed between patients with single-chamber and dual-chamber pacing. VVI pacing elicited marked decrease in left ventricle ejection fraction and ...
The infant required transvenous ventricular pacing which controlled the arrhythmia by overdrive suppression. A permanent epicardial unipolar VVI pacemaker was implanted at one week of age.