Sudden Death in Pacemaker Patients |
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| Authors: | MICHAEL NÜ RNBERG,M.D.,,REAS Pö TTLER,M.D.,,KLAUS FROHNER,M.D.,,KLAUS KOFLER,M.D.,,REA PODCZECK,M.D.,,CHRISTIAN STELLWAG,M.D., KONRAD STEINBACH,M.D. |
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| Affiliation: | From the Third Medical Department (Cardiology), Ludwig Boltzmann Arrhythmia Research Unit, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria. |
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| Abstract: | Of 264 pacemaker patients who died within 27.6 ± 21 months following pacemaker implantation, 36 (13.6%) died suddenly. There was no difference between them and the remaining patients in terms of age, sex, indications for pacing, type of pacemaker used, and interval between pacemaker implantation and death. On autopsy, all but one patient were found to show severe three-vessel disease without evidence of acute myocardial infarction. The cause of death would thus be compatible with malignant ventricular tachycardia. |
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| Keywords: | sudden cardiac death ventricular arrhythmia pacemaker (PM) patient |
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