Population
1 patient with a normally functioning pacemaker
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Raises awareness of exit block in paced patients; first case leaves open incidence and monitoring needs.
This is the first reported case of a patient dying because their myocardium stopped responding to a normally functioning pacemaker due to an abnormally high threshold.
Preston et al. (1967) studied this question.
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