Samuel H Baldinger, Désirée Burren, Fabian Noti, Helge Servatius, Jens Seiler, Antonio Madaffari, Babken Asatryan, Hildegard Tanner, Tobias Reichlin, Andreas Haeberlin, Laurent Roten
AIMS: Pacemaker (PM) patients may require a subsequent upgrade to an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Limited data exists on this patient population. We sought to characterize this population, to assess predictors for ICD upgrade, and to report the outcome. METHODS: From our prospective PM and ICD implantation registry, all patients who underwent PM and/or ICD implantations at our center were analyzed. Patient characteristics and outcomes of PM patients with subsequent ICD upgrade were compared to age- and sex-matched patients with de novo ICD implantation, and to PM patients without subsequent upgrade...
April 24, 2024: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology: PACE