- ►annals.org WK Shen, DL Hayes, SC Hammill, KR … - Annals of internal …, 1996 - Am Coll Physicians Add to CiteULike Add to Complore Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us Add to Digg Add to Facebook
Add to Reddit Add to Technorati Add to Twitter What's this? ... Background: The number of very
elderly persons who are candidates for implantation of a permanent pacemaker is ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
WK Shen, SC Hammill, DL Hayes, DL Packer, … - The American journal of …, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Permanent pacing can prevent recurrent symptoms and reduce mortality in elderly patients with
symptomatic high-degree atrioventricular (AV) block. However, long-term survival with respect
to comparable control subjects has not been well defined. In our study, relative long-term ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
B Schmidt, M Brunner, M Olschewski, C Hummel, TS … - American Heart Journal, 2003 - Elsevier Today, patients aged ≥80 years account for 32% of all PM implantations. An increasing 5-year
survival after PM implantation to the current rate of 66% was found, compared to 37% and
47% in the previous decades. Based on a mean survival time of 8 years, clinical ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 10 versions
PA Brady, WK Shen, SA Neubauer, SC Hammill, … - Journal of Interventional …, 1997 - Springer Abstract. Dual-chamber pacing may improve short-term hemodynamics and functional class
in some patients with congestive heart failure, even in the absence of conven- tional indications
for pacemaker implantation. However, the impact of different pacing modes on survival of ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►onlinejacc.org A Jahangir, WK Shen, SA Neubauer, DJ Ballard, … - Journal of the American …, 1999 - Elsevier We retrospectively reviewed 432 patients (mean age, 84.5 ± 3.9 years) who received their initial
PM (ventricular in 310 and dual chamber in 122) between 1980 and 1992. Follow-up was complete
(3.5 ± 2.6 years). Observed survival was estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. Age- ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] JE Elizabeth, GJ Green - British Medical Journal, 1991 - pmj.bmj.com Page 1. doi:10.1136/pgmj.67.789.663 1991;67;663-665 Postgrad. Med. J. JE Elizabeth and GJ
Green nonagenarians. Permanent pacemakers in http://pmj.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/789/
663 Updated information and services can be found at: These include: References ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - All 6 versions
K Breivik, OJ Ohm - Acta medica Scandinavica, 1984 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Of 693 patients on permanent pacemaker treatment between 1962 and 1981, 282 (40.7%) were
above the age of 75. Of this number, 142 patients were 75-79 years, 95 80-84 years and 45
85-93 (mean 87) years old at the time of the first pacemaker implantation. The patients ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - All 2 versions
RT Tung, WK Shen, DL Hayes, SC Hammill, KR … - The American journal of …, 1994 - Elsevier In this population-based study, long-term survival and prognostic factors were examined in 148
patients, 55 men and 93 women, from Olmsted County, Minnesota, who had permanent pacemaker
implantation for sick sinus syndrome between 1969 and 1991. The overall survival for ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
PP Marín L, E Valenzuela A, S Castro H, F … - Revista médica de …, 1998 - SciELO Chile El envejecimiento de la población mundial es una nueva situación, desconocida antes por la
humanidad y que exige la puesta en práctica de políticas asistenciales específicas. En USA,
desde la década de los ochenta, por el excesivo gasto en salud se analiza ampliamente ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - Cached - All 4 versions
[CITATION] Therapeutic approaches to heart failure in elderly patients
