ORLANDO, FL — Transvenous pacemaker leads pose a number of potential challenges and risks, including serious infection, so several alternative strategies—such as subcutaneous leads in the case of ...

Despite being at higher risk of complications overall, Medicare beneficiaries who receive a Micra leadless pacemaker (Medtronic) fare better than those implanted with traditional transvenous systems, ...

Medtronic announced Monday that its Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) met safety and effectiveness endpoints in its Global Clinical Trial by "wide margins." Almost all patients—99.2%—were ...

Medical technology giant Medtronic plcMDT recently released positive long-term results from the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) Global Clinical Trial, successfully demonstrating the ...

DUBLIN, Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Micra™ AV, the world’s smallest pacemaker with ...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA — There may be a resolution in sight for the sudden battery-depletion issue that has frustrated progress on the Nanostim (St Jude Medical/Abbott) leadless pacemaker, which should allow ...

Robert Kowal, MD, remembers vividly the day he was first introduced to the concept of Medtronic’s leadless pacemaker, which went on to become known as Micra. He was a practicing electrophysiologist ...

Billed as the world’s smallest pacemaker, Medtronic’s new Micra TPS (Transcatheter Pacing System) is about the size of a large vitamin capsule. At about one-tenth the size of a regular pacemaker, ...