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Experience with the abramslucas inductively coupled cardiac pacemaker

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A SERIES of forty-six patients treated with the Abrams-Lucas inductively coupled pacemaker for periods up to three years is described. There have been three deaths in the series only one of which is thought to have been linked to the pacemaking process. The incidence of complications has been low and of the type associated with any endocardial pacing system, i.e. early catheter displacement and infection of the implanted parts. No internal component has had to be replaced for malfunction or breakage. This is a safe, reliable, simple, inexpensive long term pacemaking system for use in patients who do not require a demand apparatus. The patients must be carefully selected as not everyone is capable of managing the system.

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  1. Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin

    M. C. Neligan & E. O’Malley

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Neligan, M.C., O’Malley, E. Experience with the abramslucas inductively coupled cardiac pacemaker. IJMS 140, 53–59 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02937173

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