Spanish pacemaker registry. 20th official report of the Heart Rhythm Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2022).

Introduction And Objectives: This article reports the cardiac pacing activity performed in 2022, including the total number of implants, adherence to remote monitoring, demographic and clinical factors, and the characteristics of the implanted devices.

Methods: The information sources were the CardioDispositivos online platform, the European pacemaker patient identification card, and data provided by the manufacturers.

Results: The rates of conventional pacemakers and low-energy resynchronizers were 866 and 34 units per million population, respectively.

Spanish pacemaker registry. 19th official report of the Heart Rhythm Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2021).

Introduction And Objectives: This document includes cardiac pacing activity performed in Spain in 2021: figures for implanted devices, demographic and clinical factors, characteristics of the implanted material, and remote monitoring data.

Methods: The European Pacemaker Patient Card, the CardioDispositivos.es online platform, the centers' own databases and the data provided by the supplier companies are used as sources of information.

Spanish Pacemaker Registry. 18th Official Report of the Cardiac Pacing Section of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2020).

Introduction And Objectives: This report describes the cardiac pacing activity performed in Spain in 2020, including the number and type of implanted devices, demographic and clinical factors, and data on remote monitoring.

Methods: Information consisted of the European Pacemaker Patient Card, data submitted to the cardiodispositivos.es online platform, the databases of participating centers, and supplier-reported data.

Spanish Pacemaker Registry. 17th Official Report of the Section on Cardiac Pacing of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2019).

Introduction And Objectives: This report describes Spanish cardiac pacing activity during 2019: quantities and types of devices and demographic and clinical factors.

Methods: The analysis is based on data obtained from the European Pacemaker Patient Identification Card, data submitted to the online platform cardiodispositivos.es, and supplier-reported data on the total number of implanted pacemakers.

Spanish Pacemaker Registry. 16th Official Report of the Spanish Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiac Pacing (2018).

Introduction And Objectives: This report describes the result of the analysis of the implanted pacemakers reported to the Spanish Pacemaker Registry in 2018.

Methods: The analysis is based on the information provided by the European Pacemaker Identification Card and supplier-reported data on the overall number of implanted pacemakers.

Results: Information was received from 90 hospitals, with a total of 12 148 cards, representing 31% of the estimated activity.

Spanish Pacemaker Registry. 15th Official Report of the Spanish Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiac Pacing (2017).

Introduction And Objectives: This report describes the data reported to the Spanish Pacemaker Registry concerning the activity in cardiac pacing in 2017 in Spain.

Methods: The analysis is based on the data obtained from the European Pacemaker Identification Card and the information reported by supplier companies related to global number of implanted pacemakers.

Results: Information was received from 106 hospitals, with a total of 12672 cards, representing the 32.

[Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis: clinicopathologic study of a necropsy series].

Introduction And Objectives: Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is characterized by sterile platelet and fibrin deposition on cardiac valves. In this study, our aim was to investigate the clinicopathologic characteristics of patients diagnosed with NBTE at the 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid, Spain.

Methods: Patients were identified by analyzing reports of autopsies carried out at the Anatomical Pathology Department of the University Hospital between 1974 and 1977 and between 1980 and 2004.