Why the study?
In very old patients, the benefit of pacemaker implantation in terms of quality and duration of life is unclear.
Population
69 patients at least 90 years old undergoing first pacemaker implant
Design
Single-centre observational cohort study
Follow-up
Median 17 months
Authors
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May support individualized decisions in nonagenarians; leaves open net survival benefit versus age-matched peers.
In patients ≥90 years old undergoing pacemaker implantation, one-year survival is excellent (75.4%), with oncological and neurological comorbidities being the strongest predictors of mortality.
Zecchin et al. (2023) studied this question.
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