Speaking to newspaper Correio da Manhã, electro-physiologist specialist Dr. Diogo Cavaco explained that the groundbreaking device “measures only two and a half centimetres and is placed in the heart through a catheter inserted in the femoral vein, and has no wires or electrodes, which reduces the risk of infection.”
Dr. Cavaco, who is the coordinator of the Santa Cruz Hospital’s Arrhythmology Intervention Unit, said the daily cost for the treatment is “around €3” and the device lasts ten years.
Seventy-year-old patient Ester Gonçalves and 85-year-old Laura Ribeiro were among the patients treated with the innovative pacemaker.