Pacemaker

Pacemakers raise fewer candidacy questions than valve procedures and more day-to-day ones: travel, phones, MRI, exercise, and how long the battery actually lasts. This piece also covers recent advances, leadless pacemakers implanted without leads or a chest incision, and extravascular defibrillators that avoid placing any lead inside the heart or blood vessels. Straight answers on what changes daily life, what doesn't, and when a replacement procedure is actually needed.

Main Interventional Cardiology procedures performed in Mumbai by Dr Haresh Mehta