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MULTICENTER STUDY
Philippe Ritter, Gabor Z Duray, Clemens Steinwender, Kyoko Soejima, Razali Omar, LluĂ­s Mont, Lucas V A Boersma, Reinoud E Knops, Larry Chinitz, Shu Zhang, Calambur Narasimhan, John Hummel, Michael Lloyd, Timothy Alexander Simmers, Andrew Voigt, Verla Laager, Kurt Stromberg, Matthew D Bonner, Todd J Sheldon, Dwight Reynolds
AIMS: Permanent cardiac pacing is the only effective treatment for symptomatic bradycardia, but complications associated with conventional transvenous pacing systems are commonly related to the pacing lead and pocket. We describe the early performance of a novel self-contained miniaturized pacemaker. METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients having Class I or II indication for VVI pacing underwent implantation of a Micra transcatheter pacing system, from the femoral vein and fixated in the right ventricle using four protractible nitinol tines...
October 1, 2015: European Heart Journal
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