Earl Bakken compares the first Medtronic pacemaker to the company’s Micra pacemaker, roughly the size of a large vitamin capsule. (Courtesy of Medtronic) The first implantable device “was ...

Medtronic's miniature leadless pacemaker, the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), is expected to secure FDA approval during the company's 2017 fiscal year. That stretches from May 2016 through ...

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 ...

Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 698-056, March 1998.

Micra, the world’s smallest pacemaker, was also recently developed by Medtronic, and is roughly the size of a multivitamin.

(JPM), Medtronic plc (MDT ... continued to drive strong growth banking on strong global growth of its Micra leadless pacemaker. Innovations and market expansion efforts are helping it offset ...