A 33 -year -old woman suffering from a rare congenital heart disease was transplanted with the world’s first prominent pacemaker. According to doctors at the Medica Superspeciality Hospital, a woman with a female tetrology, which hinders the pulmonary valve to move from the right ventricle to the lung artery, prevents normal blood from pumping lungs, with rare people with this challenging anatomy.

According to doctors, the absence of viable venous access to a traditional pacemaker inspired her to go for a leadless pacemaker implantation for a woman with a glenn shunt – a kind of process for children that arise with heart problems such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, triccred atresia and dubble outlet light ventricle.

What does the Glenn process do?

Generally, the right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs to obtain oxygen, and the left ventricle pumps blood to the body with oxygen. But in some types of heart problems, known as single ventricle defects, one ventricle is very small, so the other pumps blood not only to the lungs but also the body.

The glein process sends blood directly from the upper body to the lungs. In this way, single ventricle only has to pump blood to the body (and not for the lungs), so it does not have to work as hard.

How does a leadless pacemaker work?

A leadless pacemaker is a small, one-tukra device that the doctor will insert into your heart to prevent a slow heart rates. All parts of a leadless pacemaker are inside a device without a separate battery. Doctors say that it does not need a lead because the entire device sits in the right ventricle of your heart.

Leadless pacemakers are about 1–1.5 inches, or 3 to 4 cm long. The device looks like a small metal cylinder. This AAA is smaller than the battery. A doctor will further adapt to your device to send small electrical impulses to your heart muscle. A leadless pacemaker keeps your heart’s electrical signals conscious.

It also provides additional electrical impulses when your natural people are often not sufficient.

What happens during the procedure?

During the process, the doctor will be:

• Numb an area at your waist with a local anesthetic
• Make a very small incision in your waist
• Insert a long, thin tube called a catheter in your formal vein through an incision
• Use an X-ray machine to guide the catheter in your heart
• Keep the leadless pacemaker in the position inside your right ventricle and secure it there. They attach it to the device using nickel titanium tines or attach it to your heart muscle.
• To ensure that they test the leadless pacemaker that they have attached it to the ventricle wall and programmed it correctly.
• Remove catheters
• Close the incision site by applying pressure in the area

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