Population
69 deceased patients with pacemakers removed at necropsy or before cremation across three hospitals. Average…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Average 46 months since implantation
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Reassures against device failure as cause of death; supports focus on comorbidities but leaves broader applicability open.
Post-mortem analysis of pacemakers revealed no device dysfunction, highlighting that death in these patients is driven by underlying diseases like ischemic heart disease and cardiomyopathy rather than device failure.
Suvarna et al. (1999) studied this question.
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