title: Causes of death and heart pathology in pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-def ibrillator patients who died in hospital.
abstract: 83 pacemaker (PM)/14 implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) autopsied patients, predominantly males, deceased 4.0±3.0/2.8±2.5 years after implantation in hospital. Coronary artery disease was most frequent. Its consequences were more severe in ICD patients. Sclerotic and rheumatic heart changes were present in older PM patients group only. The immediate cause of death was mostly of cardiac etiology. Relatively short implant-death interval should be explained by rather great part of non-cardiac causes of death in hospitalised patients.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  pacemakers - implantable cardioverter - defibrillators-causes of death - heart pathology - autopsy.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dvořák
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Novák
authors.forename: Pavel
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authors.lastname: Kamarýt
authors.forename: Bronislava
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authors.lastname: Slaná
authors.forename: Jolana
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authors.lastname: Lipoldová
authors.forename: Pavel
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authors.lastname: Dvořák
authors.forename: Karel
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authors.lastname: Veselý