KUALA LUMPUR: A medical team from the National Heart Institute (IJN) has successfully installed a dual chamber pacemaker on a pregnant woman without exposing her to radiation.
The insertion of the device was done with a non-fluoroscopic imaging technique, the first in the country, said IJN interventional electrophysiology and implantable devices clinical director Dr Azlan Hussin.
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