CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – UVA Health is the first hospital in the Mid-Atlantic to offer wireless pacemakers to patients.
“The beauty of this new system is that it is the first kind of leadless pacemaker that paces, is capable of pacing the left bottom chamber of the heart, left ventricle, which is in effect the most important chamber of the heart because it squeezes blood around our vital organs,” said Doctor Oliver Monfredi, a UVA Health electrophysiologist.
Doctors at UVA are pioneering the use of new wireless pacemakers to target irregular heartbeats and re-sync heart rhythms…