Population
517 incident sudden deaths, of which 22 had cardiac implantable electronic devices, and a cohort of 712 San…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
35 months
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Device concerns in half of CIED sudden deaths support routine postmortem interrogation; leaves open impact on device surveillance and programming.
Systematic interrogation and autopsy of sudden deaths in patients with CIEDs identified device concerns in 50% of cases, indicating that current passive surveillance may underestimate device malfunction.
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