First created for adults, the Micra pacemaker is now used at 15 pediatric centers around the globe — including LeBonheur.

Earl Bakken compares the first Medtronic pacemaker to the company’s Micra pacemaker, roughly the size of a large vitamin ...

The work was also published in Circulation. The device is designed to surround a leadless pacemaker, such as the Medtronic Micra, which sits in the heart's right ventricle. The challenge with a ...

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

Signs of heart block may vary from person to person. In some people, it may be mild and asymptomatic, while others may ...

Originally a basic facility, it has seen substantial upgrades in infrastructure, medical equipment, and staff expertise to ...

Although some studies have demonstrated that, given appropriate precautions, MRI can be safely performed in patients with selected implantable pacemakers, MRI in pacemaker patients is still ...

This helps you relax and helps prevent pain. The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The doctor will put the pacemaker leads through ...

The updated Nissan Micra can now count style among its list of attributes thanks to this successful makeover. Unfortunately, changes to the cabin haven’t quite gone far enough so it still feels ...

The Micra name stretches all the way back to 1982, and the fourth-generation model has finally arrived. It’s more a case of evolution rather than revolution for the tiny runaround ...