Micra Transcatheter Pacing System

Cardiac surgeons at Southampton General Hospital (UK) used a catheter to thread a pill-sized pacemaker through the femoral vein from the groin to the inner wall of a patient’s heart.  This follows the first clinical trial of the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (made by Medtronic, Minneapolis) last December in Linz, Austria.  The full trial will involve 780 patients at 50 centers, with results from the first 60 patients to be announced shortly. MORE

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