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To the Editor: The article by Connolly et al. (May 11 issue)¹ on physiologic pacing as compared with ventricular pacing was published prematurely, since the period of follow-up (range, two to five years) was simply too short for the true advantages of one type of pacing over the other to become fully manifest. The physiologic virtues of normally timed atrial transport were described in 1911,² and the consequences of retrograde ventriculoatrial conduction (a harbinger of symptoms of the "pacemaker syndrome" in the recipients of antiarrhythmia devices and in all likelihood the mechanism that triggers subsequent atrial fibrillation) in 1913.³ More . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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