{
  "id": 9159356,
  "title": "Pacemakers after heart valve surgery have different survival impact by sex, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/pacemakers-after-heart-valve-surgery-have-different-survival-impact",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-22T15:20:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-pacemakers-heart-valve-surgery-survival.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), disturbances in the heart's electrical conduction system can make a pacemaker necessary. A recent study shows that the significance of a pacemaker for subsequent prognosis differs between women and men. Physicians at Karl Landsteiner University (klu Krems) analyzed short- and long-term survival data from more than 1,100 people affected.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}