“Clinical experience of pacemaker implantation and automatic implantable cardioverter defibllilator”

Abstract

We implanted 650 pacemakers in our clinic. The best survival ratio was achieved by physiological pacing with DDD and AAIR pacemaker. Non-physiological pacing with VVI and VVIR pacing should shorter longivity. Analysiny the quality of life by mailed opinion survay, the patients with RR-PM should worse results than that of fixed rate pacemaker patients. There is no clinical experience with AICD in Japan except seven experimental implants including one our care. Our conclusion is that with the ideal pacemaker with AICD function, improved patient longivity and quality of life is achieved.