FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Adventist Health Hanford is the first Central Valley hospital to offer patients the "world's tiniest pacemaker." The first procedure was done in May. The average pacemaker is ...

VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) -South Georgia Medical Center (SGMC) Cardiologist Center performed their first-ever inter cardiac Mica Pacemaker Wednesday on an 86-year-old patient who was having severe heart ...

Douglas, Ga.-based Coffee Regional Medical Center has implanted its first Micra pacemaker, a leadless device said to be the smallest pacemaker in the world. The minimally invasive procedure was ...

Walking into the sterile, catheterization lab at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Northeast Fresno is like stepping into a war room in the battle against a potentially deadly heart condition with the ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Cardiologists at Our Lady of the Lake (OLOL) are now implanting the world’s smallest pacemaker in some patients with atrial fibrillation. The first heart patient in Baton ...

A New Smyrna Beach nurse suffered from a heart rhythm disorder that caused her to faint, until she received a "life-saving" high-tech pacemaker. The Micra AV pacemaker is a leadless device smaller ...

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 ...

Medtronic made history six years ago when FDA approved the Micra leadless pacemaker on April 6, 2016. The device represented a major innovative leap in pacemaker technology, and also became a prime ...

In recent months, product announcements of cardiac devices from major device makers have had a common theme: miniaturization. The trend is clear - when it comes to the heart and cardiac devices, it ...

A leadless right-ventricular pacemaker continued to show an edge over conventional transvenous pacemakers by triggering a substantially reduced rate of complications during the 6 months following ...

Athens, Tenn.-based Starr Regional Medical Center completed its first implantation of Medtronic’s Micra leadless pacemaker, a device for patients with slow heart rhythms. The minimally invasive ...