What is the best type of pacemaker for chronotropic incompetence?

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What is the best type of pacemaker for chronotropic incompetence?

submitted by Norm from Las Vegas, Nevada on 1/22/2013

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by Texas Heart Institute cardiologist, Abdi Rasekh, MD

Abdi Rasekh, MD You would need a rate responsive pacemaker. All pacemaker companies have rate responsive pacemakers.

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