Experience of Permanent Pacemaker Implantation At NICVD

Abstract

Our study group com pared 252 new patients who had permanent pacemakers im-
planted in the year 1994. Commonest presenting symptom was syncope found in 34.1 % of patients, followed by vertigo in 30.1 %. The most common ECG findings were com- plete heart block with atrioventricular asynchrony, seen in 71.4% followed by Mobitz Type II block in 10.3% and sick sinus syndrome in 7.9%. Mostly VVI type ofPPMs were implanted and other more sophisticated type were used rarely.