This week Cambridge Consultants unveiled a semi-leadless pacemaker it designed for start-up EBR Systems. The device, called Wireless Cardiac Stimulation system (WiCS), includes a leadless electrode ...
A new wireless pacemaker appears safe and feasible for use, potentially advancing the technology that cardiologists use to maintain heart rhythm in patients, according to results from a new clinical ...
The FDA has approved the first wireless heart pacemaker. The Micra Transcatheter system is a self-contained device. It's just 1-inch long, it doesn't have wires and it's implanted by a flexible tube ...
A patient at St. Francis Hospital in Rosyln, New York, Carol Kasyjanski, 61, has become the first recipient of St. Jude Medical's wireless-enabled pacemaker, which the FDA approved in July. Kasyjanksi ...
Estimates suggest that around three million Americans are living with cardiac pacemakers, according to the American Heart Association. Now, thanks to MountainStar Healthcare, a new kind of pacemaker – ...
A 92-year-old retired school teacher received Mumbai's first leadless pacemaker implantation through the neck vein. Elizabeth Fijardo, a former English and History teacher, had been experiencing ...
The world’s tiniest pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and dissolves after ...
Pune: A leadless capsule pacemaker — a wireless device — was successfully implanted in a 61-year-old man's heart with complete blockage through a minimally invasive catheter-based procedure, with the ...