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To the Editor: If Lamas et al. (June 13 issue)¹ wished to compare dual-chamber pacing with single-chamber pacing in patients with sinus-node dysfunction, why did they not compare single-chamber right atrial pacing with dual-chamber pacing? This mode of pacing is infrequently used, but in a patient with only sinus-node dysfunction, it would have been both physiologic and less expensive. The only justification for dual-chamber pacing in these patients would be the presumption of associated atrioventricular-node dysfunction, but the associated presence of atrioventricular-node disease in these patients was not mentioned. Single-chamber atrial pacing would have eliminated the problem of the pacemaker . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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