Surgeons perform record breaking pacemaker operation
Written by on 9 May 2023
Paedatric surgeons from Valencia’s La Fe University Hospital have successfully implanted for the first time in Europe a leadless pacemaker in a premature baby.
Doctors carried out the procedure on the baby which weighed only 1.5 kg (one and a half kilograms) and who was suffering from severe low heart rate.
The smallest available pacemaker was used in the operation, with the baby understood to be making a recovery after their surgery.
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