First clinical experience with the Kora pacemaker system in congenital complete heart block in newborn infants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To report first clinical experience on three cases of congenital complete heart block and the use of a pacemaker system with a maximum lower rate interval of 95 beats per minute.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed three patients treated with a pacemaker system with a maximum lower rate interval of 95 beats per minute suffering from congenital complete heart block. We report a follow up period of 2.9 years, focusing on the patients' growth, development, and adverse events, as well as pacemaker function.

Results

In all three patients pacemaker function was impeccable, including minute ventilation sensor rate adaption. All patients showed limited growths as expected, adequate development, good feeding tolerability and circadiane heart rate adaption. One patie

SUBMITTER: Kurath-Koller S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6480703 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature