The Utility of Leadless Atrioventricular Synchronous Pacemaker Implantation as a Novel Alternative to a Traditional Pacemaker During Pregnancy

Meet Shah; Ashkan Hashemi; Felix Afriyie; Inderjit Singh; Hyoeun Kim; Emad F Aziz

doi:10.19102/icrm.2023.14084

The Utility of Leadless Atrioventricular Synchronous Pacemaker Implantation as a Novel Alternative to a Traditional Pacemaker During Pregnancy

J Innov Card Rhythm Manag. 2023 Aug 15;14(8):5558-5562. doi: 10.19102/icrm.2023.14084. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Authors

Meet Shah¹, Ashkan Hashemi¹, Felix Afriyie¹, Inderjit Singh¹, Hyoeun Kim¹, Emad F Aziz¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.

Abstract

The Micra™ leadless pacemaker (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA) is indicated for the management of symptomatic bradycardia and advanced heart block. However, the safety of this procedure during pregnancy has not been studied. Here, we present a unique case of Micra™ leadless pacemaker implantation (MLP) in a 31 weeks pregnant patient with intermittent complete heart block who presented with multiple syncopal episodes. The patient underwent an MLP implantation with <40 mGy radiation exposure (about 0.6 min of total fluoroscopy time), which is deemed a negligible dose of radiation exposure during pregnancy. Her subsequent hospital course was uneventful, and she was safely discharged home and was able to continue her pregnancy and delivery without further syncopal episodes or incidence of heart block.

Keywords: Leadless pacemaker; Micra™; pregnancy.

Publication types

Case Reports