Early ICD implantation in cardiac arrest survivors with acute coronary syndrome - predictors of implantation, ICD-therapy and long-term survival.

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation in patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) due to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is controversial. Consecutive OHCA-survivors due to AMI from two Danish tertiary heart centers from 2007 to 2011 were included. Predictors of ICD-implantation, ICD-therapy and long-term survival (5 years) were investigated.

Infective endocarditis and risk of death after cardiac implantable electronic device implantation: a nationwide cohort study.

Aims: To determine the incidence, risk factors, and mortality of infective endocarditis (IE) following implantation of a first-time, permanent, cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED).

Methods And Results: From Danish nationwide administrative registers (beginning in 1996), we identified all de-novo permanent pacemakers (PMs) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) together with the occurrence of post-implantation IE-events in the period from 2000-2012. Included were 43 048 first-time PM/ICD recipients.

Healthcare-associated infective endocarditis of the pulmonary valve.

We report a case of a 66-year-old man with known ischaemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus and stage 4 kidney disease who was admitted to our tertiary centre with shortness of breath and atrial flutter. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) was without suspicion of endocarditis. During hospitalisation, the patient suffered a nosocomial infection in a peripheral vascular catheter caused by Staphylococcus aureus.