Incidence of device-related infection in 97 750 patients: clinical data from the complete Danish device-cohort (1982-2018).

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Device-related infection (DRI) is a severe complication to cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) therapy. Device-related infection incidence and its risk factors differ between previous studies. We aimed to define the long-term incidence and incidence rates of DRI for different types of CIEDs in the complete Danish device-cohort and identify patient-, operation- and device-related risk factors for DRI.

Methods and results

From the Danish Pacemaker (PM) and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) Register, we included consecutive Danish patients undergoing CIED implantation or reoperation from January 1982 to April 2018, resulting in 97 750 patients, 128 045 operations and follow-up of in total 566 275 device years (DY). We identified 1827 DRI causing device

SUBMITTER: Olsen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6568207 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature