Abstract
Several investigators have documented the successful use of oral sustained‐release theophylline in treating symptomatic bradycardia and sick sinus syndrome. This paper reports a case of chronotropic incompetence in which specific exercise indices, including the chronotropic response index, were used to measure the therapeutic efficacy of theophylline.
Keywords: chronotropic incompetence, sick sinus syndrome, theophylline
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