TABLE 1.
Patient | Age at implant | Cardiac diagnoses | Cardiac surgical history | Prior cardiac procedures | Indication for pacing | Rhythm at implant time |
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1 | 5 years | TGA intact septum, SubPS | BT; Mustard, SubPS resection, MV repair; Redo mustard; LAV valve replacement | 4 | APB | Complete heart block, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation |
2* | 14 months | Shone’s anomaly: CoA, MS, subaortic stenosis bicuspid aortic valve | CoA repair; Redo CoA repair; Resection supravalvular mitral ring; MV replacement | 4 | APB | Complete heart block, accelerated idioventricular rhythm |
3 | 9 months | ToF | ToF repair | 1 | APB† | Sinus rhythm/accelerated junctional rhythm |
4 | 10 years | PA, intact septum | BT; BDG; Fontan | 3 | SND† | Junctional bradycardia |
5* | 3 years | Hypoplastic left heart | Norwood, BT revision; BDG; Fontan | 3 | SND† | Atrial flutter |
6 | 2 months | VSD | VSD repair | 1 | APB | Complete heart block with junctional escape |
7 | 10 years | TA, VSD, subaortic stenosis | PA banding; BDG; Fontan | 2 | SND† | Sinus bradycardia with premature atrial beats |
8* | 23 years | TA, PS | RBT; LBT; Fontan; PA arterioplasty, Redo BT | 4 | SND, IART† | Sinus bradycardia |
9* | 5 years | Unbalanced AVSD, TGA, PA, AV valve incompetence | BT shunt; BDG; Fontan | 3 | APB† | Junctional bradycardia |
10* | 5 years | DILV | BDG; Fontan | 3 | SND† | Junctional bradycardia |
11 | 4 years | ToF | ToF repair | 1 | Long QT† | Sinus rhythm, intermittent torsade de pointes |
Follow-up duration below mean
Pacemaker implantation was primary operation of admission. APB Acquired postoperative heart block; AV Atrioventricular; AVSD Atrioventricular septal defect; BDG Bidirectional Glenn; BT Blalock-Taussig shunt; CoA Coarctation of the aorta; DILV Double inlet left ventricle; IART Intra-atrial re-entrant tachycardia; L Left; LAV Left atrioventricular; MS Mitral stenosis; MV Mitral valve; PA Pulmonary atresia; PS Pulmonary stenosis; R Right; SND Sinus node dysfunction; SubPS Subpulmonary stenosis; TA Tricuspid atresia; TGA Transposition of great arteries; ToF Tetralogy of Fallot; VSD Ventricular septal defect