KUALA LUMPUR: The National Heart Institute (IJN) has successfully implanted four of the world’s smallest pacemaker devices, the Medtronic MICRA Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), in each of its patients suffering from bradycardia (slow or irregular heartbeat).
Its senior consultant cardiologist and electro physiologist, Datuk Dr Razali Omar said this was done after being chosen as the first centre in Asia Pacific to participate with Medtronic Inc, the world’s largest maker of medical devices’ global clinical study.
“The new device is an innovation from the previous pacemaker devices which were used to
treat patients suffering from a
slow or irregular heart rhythm known as bradycardia,” he said yesterday. — Bernama