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Table 1 Baseline and clinical characteristics

From: The wearable cardioverter defibrillator as a bridge to reimplantation in patients with ICD or CRT-D-related infections

Patients

( n = 21)

Demographics

Age, years

65 ± 8

Male gender, n (%)

16 (76.2)

Medical history

Renal failure, n (%)

7 (33.3)

Diabetes mellitus, n (%)

9 (42.85)

Coronary artery disease, n (%)

11 (52.4)

Symptoms

Pocket infection, n (%)

14 (66.7)

Systemic infection, n (%)

7 (33.3)

Laboratory

Leucocytes billion/l

8.7 ± 2.2

C-reactive protein mg/l

66.0 ± 61

  1. Continuous variables are expressed as mean ± standard deviation and categorical are expressed by values and percentages