Table 3.
Clinical outcomes in patients undergoing apical and septal right ventricular pacemaker implantation (n (%))
| Clinical endpoint | Apical group (n=616) | Septal group (n=204) | P value |
| All-cause mortality | 181 (29) | 47 (23) | 0.1 |
| Unstable angina | 8 (1) | 5 (3) | 0.3 |
| Myocardial infarction | 38 (6) | 16 (8) | 0.4 |
| Pulmonary embolism | 7 (1) | 1 (1) | 0.7 |
| Cardiac arrest | 6 (1) | 1 (1) | >0.9 |
| Paroxysmal SVT/VT | 41 (7) | 4 (2) | 0.01 |
| Atrial fibrillation/flutter | 43 (7) | 14 (7) | >0.9 |
| Heart failure | 38 (6) | 10 (5) | 0.6 |
| Stroke | 15 (2) | 8 (4) | 0.3 |
| Ruptured AAA | 6 (1) | 1 (1) | >0.9 |
| Total | 383 (62) | 116 (57) | 0.2 |
AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm; SVT, supraventricular tachycardia; VT, ventricular tachycardia.