Pacemaker Use Following Heart Transplantation.

CONCLUSION: Our results show a decreased pacemaker need after bicaval anastomosis and that more patients who needed a pacemaker after transplantation had a pretransplant diagnosis of ischemic cardiomyopathy. In our cohort, the need for a permanent pacemaker was also associated with older donor grafts and an increase in the number of treated rejection episodes. PMID: 28331443 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Ochsner Journal - Category: Journals (General) Tags: Ochsner J Source Type: research