(Adnkronos) - "I pacemaker senza fili si introducono direttamente nelle cavità cardiache senza la necessità di avere una ferita chirurgica, come accade quando si impianta un pacemaker convenzionale. È un passo importante della tecnologia perché offre al paziente un margine di sicurezza decisamente più elevato”. A dirlo è Claudio Tondo, direttore del dipartimento di Aritmologia, centro Cardiologico Monzino Irccs Milano, in chiusura dell’evento organizzato da Abbott che ha annunciato la disponibilità in Italia di Aveir Dr, il primo sistema al mondo di pacemaker bicamerale senza fili utile in caso di un ritmo cardiaco anomalo o più lento del normale.
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00:00The so-called wireless pacemakers are pacemakers that are inserted directly into the cardiac cavity
00:13without the need to have a surgical wound as is conventionally created when a conventional pacemaker is implanted.
00:24The advantages are, apart from the aesthetic advantage, but this clearly has a somewhat reduced relevance,
00:33is the fact that wireless pacemakers significantly reduce, if not zero, the risk of infection.
00:42In fact, the risk of infection is still one of the complications of the conventional pacemaker system,
00:49which is between 1 and 5% in all plants, and therefore this is an important step in technology
00:57because it offers the patient a much higher safety margin and wider than the conventional pacemaker.
01:07Above all, wireless pacemakers do nothing but reproduce exactly the function of the conventional pacemaker,
01:16so in all respects there is no difference from a stimulation point of view, but a whole series of advantages.