The Incredible Shrinking Cardiac Devices

The "world's smallest, minimally invasive cardiac pacemaker," Medtronic's Micra™ Transcatheter Pacing System, was implanted last week for the first time in the United States. This implantation comes just two-plus months after its first in-human implantation, performed in Austria. Both implantations are part of a single-arm multi-center clinical trial which will enroll up to 780 patients.
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