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Percutaneous Implantation of an Entirely Intracardiac Leadless Pacemaker

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Submitted by

Tom C. Nguyen

Source

Source Name: New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1507192?query=featured_home

Author(s)

Vivek Y. Reddy, Derek V. Exner, Daniel J. Cantillon, Rahul Doshi, T. Jared Bunch, Gery F. Tomassoni, Paul A. Friedman, N.A. Mark Estes, III, John Ip, Imran Niazi, Kenneth Plunkitt, Rajesh Banker, James Porterfield, James E. Ip, and Srinivas R. Dukkipati for the LEADLESS II Study Investigators

Multicenter trial examining the efficacy of a miniaturized and fully self-contained leadless pacemaker percutaneously implanted into the right ventricle. The leadless pacemaker met prespecified pacing and sensing requirements with 1 in 15 patients experiencing adverse device related events.