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Hello all. I'm a soon to be thirty year old librarian whose recently discovered this wonderful site. I was born with neonatal lupus that left me with a third degree heart block. My first implant was when I was maybe one year old and I'm now on implant number four. My dearest hope is that they figure out leadless pacemakers before my current set wears out!

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Lead-less Pacing is a great advancement

by admin - 2017-03-12 19:14:43

I've been thinking the same.  I've been paced since 1978 and welcome the day I can eliminate the need for leads.

Blake

They are getting close

by AyeJay - 2017-03-12 19:35:17

The micra was approved for clinical trials and the results seem good. But I think it might be for single chamber pacing. 

 

http://www.medtronic.com/us-en/about/news/micra-fda-approval.html

Leadless Pacinig

by Narelle - 2017-03-14 05:38:46

http://www.medtronic.com/us-en/patients/treatments-therapies/pacemakers/our/micra.html

Yep its here and on trial, there are a couple of people on this site who are on the trial and doing well, just search medtronic micra...    It is only single chamber at this stage. 

Im due for a box/battery change next week and my surgeon said lets just use the old leads and give you another 10 years of pacing (hopefully) while they work on a dual chamber leadless pacemaker and we can sort it out then.    Im on number 9 or 10 pacemaker with lots of old leads still in and still going strong... 42 years of pacemakers and Im only 57. 

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I'm 43 and have had my pacemaker four weeks today. I'm looking forward to living another 50 years and this marvelous device inside me will help me do that.