Population
79-year-old man with a modern CPU-controlled pacemaker presenting with lightheadedness
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Clinicians should remain vigilant for runaway pacemaker in symptomatic patients with modern devices; leaves open questions on malfunction frequency and surveillance.
Runaway pacemaker malfunction, though rare, can still occur in modern CPU-controlled pacemakers and cause potentially life-threatening dysrhythmia.
Makaryus et al. (2005) studied this question.
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