Among Medicare beneficiaries, implantation was especially frequent for female patients and those undergoing tricuspid valve replacement with or without concomitant left-sided heart surgeries.

The baseline characteristics of the 6,268 cardiac surgery patients are outlined in Table I. The mean age of the study patients was 66 ± 10 years. Overall, 141 (2.2%) patients underwent PPM ...

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The principal findings of this retrospective cohort study of more than 6,000 cardiac surgery patients are as follows. First, 40% of the patients were PPM dependent in long-term follow-up. Predictors ...