title: [Sick sinus syndrome and permanent cardiac pacing].
abstract: The authors submit a retrospective analysis of 140 patients with an affection of the sinoatrial node who had a permanent cardiac pacemaker. The analysis comprises an 18-month period; the patients were from the eastern Slovakian region. The authors emphasize different affections of the sinoatrial node and discuss various ways of permanent cardiac pacing and other types of non-pharmacological treatment (e.g. electric ablation). Diseases of the sinoatrial node account for as much as 40% of implantations of a permanent pacemaker on account of bradyarrhythmia. At the clinic this implies a quantitative increase of cardiac pacing on account of diseases of the sinoatrial node by 18%, as compared with a previous period (e.g. the average for 1978-1987). A qualitative change is the introduction of physiological permanent cardiac pacing.
authors.affiliation: III. interná klinika Fakultnej nemocnice Univerzity Pavla Jozefa Safárika v Kosiciach.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pella
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stancák
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Schroner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bodnár
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sedlák
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012804:Sick Sinus Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Choroba sinoatriálneho uzla a trvalá kardiostimulácia.