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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.