Research Article
Mortality in Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy and Permanent Cardiac Pacemakers
Table 4
Characteristics of the PM patients by survival outcome.
| | | Alive | Dead | |
| | (%) | 44 (40) | 66 (60) | | | Age (mean ± SD) | | | 0.3 NS | | Female gender (%) | 11 (25) | 18 (27) | 0.8 NS | | Followup (months) (mean ± SD) | | | 0.05 | | Arterial hypertension (%) | 29 (66) | 32 (48) | 0.08 NS | | Diabetes (%) | 4 (9) | 10 (15) | 0.4 NS | | Atrial fibrillation (%) | 17 (38) | 18 (27) | 0.2 NS | | Coronary artery disease (%) | 6 (13) | 13 (19) | 0.4 NS | | Dilated cardiomyopathy (%) | 2 (4) | 7 (10) | 0.3 NS | | LVEF % (mean ± SD) | | | 0.4 NS | | Valvular heart disease (%) | 3 (7) | 10 (15) | 0.2 NS | | AV block (%) | 23 (52) | 42 (63) | 0.24 NS | | Sick sinus syndrome (%) | 18 (41) | 23 (34) | 0.5 NS | | VVI PM (%) | 8 (18) | 32 (48) | 0.0013 |
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NS: not significant.
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