2023-05-08 22:15:28
With a mini pacemaker, cardiologists have made history. The baby, premature and weighing just three pounds, had a congenital atrioventricular block full and his heart was barely beating. The Arrhythmia Unit, together with the Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery services of Hospital La Fe in Valencia, have successfully implanted, for the first time in Europe, a leadless pacemaker for use in children.
“He was born with a very serious heart problem, it was beating with very few beats per minute, he was about to leave in a couple of moments”, explained Joaquín Osca, head of the Arrhythmia Unit section of the La Fe Hospital in Valencia.
The neonate urgently needed a pacemaker, but so far the smallest in the world, only 27.50, two millimeters more than a two-euro coin, it was not worth it It was too big for his little heart and couldn’t be implanted inside, so they decided to modify his design. “It is a complex intervention due to the size of the child. We have been able to count on a miniaturized pacemakeran adaptation has been made to do so”, detailed Osca.
As? Implanting it, wrapped in a capsule, in the abdomen and connecting it with some cables to your little heart. This technique has only been performed 10 times before in the United States, and which, for the first time in Europe, has been achieved with success. An unprecedented operation, which opens new doors and new ways to stimulate the hearts of the little ones.
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