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The Cardiology section astatine the Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) has successfully treated brady arrhythmia (heart bushed disorder) successful a 74-year-old diligent from Anchal by implanting Micra AV, said to beryllium the smallest leadless pacemaker the size of a ample capsule, straight into the bosom done a minimally invasive procedure.
Leadless pacemakers person go the cornerstone successful remedial attraction of bosom bushed disorders and atrioventricular (AV) blocks and the authorities aesculapian assemblage present is the archetypal nationalist assemblage infirmary to implant it successfully.
Pacemakers supply pacing enactment to support bosom complaint and rhythm, reducing the hazard of complications similar bosom nonaccomplishment owed to irregular bosom beats. Traditional pacemakers are the size of a lucifer container and person electrical leads which are usually implanted into the patients by making a surgical pouch nether the skin.
Leadless pacemakers, connected the different hand, are implanted straight into the heart’s close ventricle, via the femoral vein successful the leg.
Leadless pacemakers frankincense bash distant with the risks of lead-related infection, dislodgement and the request to make surgical pockets nether the skin.
The minimally invasive process was performed nether the enactment of a squad headed by caput of Cardiology section Mathew Iype, and elder Professors Sibu Mathew, B. Krishnakumar, and pacemaker implantation adept Arun Gopi.
