Warren Mauston, the first U.S. patient to be fitted with an external pacemaker, at St. Paul’s Bethesda Hospital in 1959. (Courtesy of Medtronic) By Mars King | mking@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — Medtronic Inc., the world's largest medical device company, said Tuesday it received U.S. approval for the first pacemaker designed to be safely used with MRI scanners.

Medtronic's is the first pacemaker approved to treat the symptoms of congestive heart failure. Medtronic beat two competing companies to get the device to market.

The company introduced the first battery-operated pacemaker in 1957 and the first implanted pacemaker a year later. Despite its groundbreaking innovations, the company was on the verge of ...

February 9, 2011 (Silver Spring, Maryland) — The FDA approved the first pacemaker specifically designed to be safe with magnetic resonance imaging scans [1]. Following the unanimous advice of ...

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It is an improvement on the Revo, Medtronic’s first MR-conditional pacemaker, Dougherty said, explaining that with the Revo, doctors couldn’t do a chest scan between certain vertebrae.

The recent FDA approval for the Micra AV2 and VR2 devices builds on the Medtronic legacy in cardiac pacing, which includes: inventing the first wearable pacemaker in 1957, launching the first ...

Co announces the start of an international clinical study to confirm the safety and efficacy of the Medtronic EnRhythm MRI SureScan pacing system, the "first-ever pacemaker" system to be developed ...

The company introduced the first battery-operated pacemaker in 1957 and the first implanted pacemaker a year later. Despite its groundbreaking innovations, the company was on the verge of ...