New York: The world&rsquo;s first leadless pacemaker, developed by an Indian-origin scientist Vivek Reddy, has shown promising results after one year of human trials on 32 patients who received the pacemaker.
<img title="The leadless pacemaker is placed directly inside the patient&rsquo;s heart without surgery. Pic for representational purpose" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2014/jul/Pacemaker.jpg" alt="The leadless pacemaker is placed directly inside the patient&rsquo;s heart without surgery. Pic for representational purpose" />
The leadless pacemaker is placed directly inside the patient&rsquo;s heart without surgery. Pic for representational purpose
&ldquo;This is the first time we have seen one-year follow-up data for this innovative, wireless cardiac pacing technology. Our results show the leadless pacemaker is comparable to traditional pacemakers,&rdquo; said Reddy, director of arrhythmia services at the Mount Sinai Hospital here.
The leadless cardiac pacemaker is placed directly inside a patient&rsquo;s heart without surgery during a catheter-guided procedure through the groin via the femoral vein. The device, resembling a tiny, silver tube and smaller than a triple-A battery, is only a few centimetres in length, making it less than 10 per cent the size of a traditional pacemaker.
It works by closely monitoring the heart&rsquo;s electrical rhythms and if the heart beat is too slow, it provides electrical stimulation therapy to regulate it. Reddy presented the one-year &lsquo;leadless&rsquo; study data findings at Heart Rhythm 2014, the Heart Rhythm Society&rsquo;s 35th annual scientific sessions in San Francisco city in US on May 9.

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The world&rsquo;s first leadless pacemaker, developed by an Indian-origin scientist Vivek Reddy, has shown promising results after one year of human trials on 32 patients who received the pacemaker

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