https://techsomogro.com/headlines-leadless-heart-pacemaker-making-debut-europe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=headlines-leadless-heart-pacemaker-making-debut-europe Science, Technology and the Future Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:36:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://techsomogro.com/headlines-leadless-heart-pacemaker-making-debut-europe/#comment-10770 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:36:23 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=11974#comment-10770 According to Medtronic, Inc., they have joined Nanostim with their own implantable pacemaker: the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS). In a December 9, 2013 press release the company announced a successful Micra TPS implant in a patient living in Linz, Austria as part of a clinical trial. Introduced using a catheterization procedure, the device has all the benefits of the Nanostim. The clinical trial will enroll up to 780 patients in 50 centers. The company intends to post the first 60 results with 3 month follow up after mid-2014.

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