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Certain arrhythmia conditions may also qualify for leadless pacemaker implantation, thus eliminating the spectrum of complications that could occur with leads. Adverse events can be divided into acute (perforation, lead dislodgement, infection) and long-term (lead fractures, device infection, insulation failure). Traditional long-term complications with leads occur in 10&amp;#37; of patients, compared with device-related adverse effects observed in 6.7&amp;#37; of leadless pacemakers. Furthermore, cardiac pacemaker implantation results in quality of life improvements across all age groups. Large cardiac rehabilitation studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of exercise in reducing the physical complications involved with pacemaker implantation. Of the three randomized controlled trials examined, all of them reported some benefit of exercise in the intervention group compared with the control. 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