%0 Journal Article
%T Complicaciones del implante de marcapaso definitivo: £¿Un evento operador dependiente? An¨¢lisis de 743 pacientes consecutivos
%A Femen¨ªa
%A Francisco J.
%A Arce
%A Mauricio
%A Pe£¿afort
%A Fernando
%A Arrieta
%A Mart¨ªn
%A Guti¨¦rrez
%A Daniel
%J Archivos de cardiolog¨ªa de M¨¦xico
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X the complications of permanent pacemaker implant, are found among 6%-9% of patients. different factors are related. objectives: we evaluated the complications related with pacemaker implants and which are the independent risk factors associated with them. methods: descriptive analysis, type case-controls, retrospective and prospective, including 743 consecutive patients, between january 2007 and april 2008. results: age: 73.83 ¡À 12 years, 63.9% male. 43% of the patients had some degree of structural cardiopathy. there were no deaths related to pacemaker implants. implant procedure-related complications were observed in 57 patients (7.67%), requiring a surgical intervention in 34 patients (4.57%). the most serious complications included one device-related infective endocarditis (0.13%), the entire device system was extracted, and one pneumothorax following subclavian vein puncture with insertion of a chest tube. in the multivariate analysis, low level of operator experience and preimplant heart failure were independent predictors for complications. conclusions: in this consecutive series of patients with permanent pacemaker implant, there was a low rate of complications, similar to the reported international series. a low level of operator experience and preimplant heart failure were related.
%K pacemakers
%K complications
%K electrical stimulation
%K argentina.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-99402010000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en