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To the Editor: Sweeney et al. (Sept. 6 issue)¹ report on their study of a strategy to minimize ventricular pacing in patients with sinus-node disease. Although mainly a semantic issue, the patients who were randomly assigned to "conventional" dual-chamber pacing in the study were not receiving what is considered the current recommended pacing strategy for patients with sinus-node disease and intact atrioventricular conduction, a predominantly atrial pacing strategy that allows atrioventricular conduction to maximally preserve normal ventricular conduction.² Dual-chamber, rate-adaptive (DDDR) pacing with a short atrioventricular delay was previously considered physiologic but has been shown to lead to a higher . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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