Why the study?
Are frailty and cognitive impairment predictive of Takotsubo syndrome following pacemaker implantation?
Are frailty and cognitive impairment predictive of Takotsubo syndrome following pacemaker implantation?
Frailty and cognitive impairment are risk factors for Takotsubo syndrome after pacemaker implantation, a complication that transiently worsens right ventricular pacing thresholds.
May warrant pre-PM frailty screening to anticipate transient threshold rises; leaves open whether targeted prevention reduces TTS incidence.
TTS is a rare complication of PM implantation. Patients with cognitive impairment and frailty are at risk of TTS. Right ventricular pacing threshold is acutely affected by TTS and improves over time.
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Niewiński et al. (2020) studied this question.
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