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In the past 15 years, pacemaker therapy has become a universally employed method in the treatment of bradycardic arrhythmias. Everywhere, the number of patients under pacemaker therapy has greatly increased — in the Federal Republic of Germany they are increasing exponentially year by year, at an annual rate of 54%. Thus, 28,000 living pacemaker patients, or 468 per million population can be expected by the end of 1973. The rate of first implantations in 1973 was estimated at 213 per million population (17). Other western industrial countries, in particular North America and Sweden, have similarly high rates (Proceedings of the IVth International Symposium on Cardiac Pacing, Groningen, 1973).
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Bette, L., Doenecke, P., Rettig, G., Flöthner, R. (1975). Results of Permanent Cardiac Stimulation Therapy. In: Schaldach, M., Furman, S. (eds) Engineering in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66187-7_5
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