HRS 2017: Medtronic And Boston Scientific's Less-Invasive CRM Devices Perform As Hoped In Real-World Registries

Results from the post-approval trials of Medtronic's Micra Transcatheter Pacing System and Boston Scientific's S-ICD presented at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in Chicago show these "leadless" devices can be implanted in "real world" patients with acute outcomes similar to those of the pre-market trials that had more restrictive inclusion criteria.

New post-market registry data shows that the first two FDA-approved cardiac rhythm management devices without transvenous leads are performing about as well as could be hoped in the "real world."

At the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in Chicago on May 11, Mikhael El-Chami of Emory University in Atlanta reported acute results from 795 patients in the post-approval registry of...

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