First wireless pacemaker implanted in Venezuela

This week, the surgery to implant the first leadless pacemaker in the country was carried out at the Metropolitan Polyclinic of Caracas.

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The operation was conducted by Venezuelan doctor Ivan Mendoza Britto, who came from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, along with specialists Heliodoro Rodríguez and Chamia Benchetrit Kaddoch.

This procedure marks a “before and following” in Venezuelan cardiology.

Mendoza is a doctor who graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela, with postgraduate degrees in Cardiology from the Cleveland Clinic and Electrophysiology from Brown University (United States), reported Noticias Venezuela.

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New pacemaker

The transcatheter pacemaker system is a new type of cardiac device, providing patients with the most advanced pacing technology at one-tenth the size of a traditional pacemaker.

Comparable in size to a large vitamin, the Micra pacemaker does not require cardiac wires (leads) or a surgical “pocket” under the skin to deliver pacing therapy to the heart.

Instead, the device is small enough to be implanted directly into the heart using a catheter through a vein in the leg.

Which provides a safe alternative to conventional pacemakers without the complications associated with leads, all while not creating scars on the skin.

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In addition, its technology allows data to be sent remotely via a mobile application to the monitoring physician.

With information from Venezuela News

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