The incidence of infective endocarditis in pacemaker recipients is 550 cases per million per year, falling between the incidence of valvular IE in the general population and prosthetic valve IE.
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Alerts clinicians to substantial IE burden in PM recipients; leaves open targeted prevention research.
Duval et al. (2004) studied this question.
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