Clinical experience with 910 carbon tip leads: comparison with polished platinum leads.
Since 1980, we have implanted 910 carbon tip leads from three different manufacturers. The pacing thresholds from these leads were compared to those of standard polished platinum electrode configurations. Our major findings are that while acute voltage thresholds are not significantly different, two of the three carbon tip leads that we used in the study have statistically lower chronic thresholds then polished platinum leads (p less than or equal to 0.01).
D002244:Carbon; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004582:Electronics, Medical; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D010984:Platinum; D013499:Surface Properties
D010984:Platinum; D002244:Carbon