TheTimeIsChow

TheTimeIsChow t1_ir245db wrote

My guess, well my hope at least, is that this isn't the case.

I'd imagine that the lead/tip scars over into the heart wall and acts like a normal pacemaker wires lead. Then the device itself can be replaced. Whether it be 'unscrewed' or detached from the lead/tip in some way.

You could 100% be right. But I'd imagine this would be very high risk should the device see a premature failure and need to come out.

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TheTimeIsChow t1_ir1b8ye wrote

I've had a pacemaker since I was 7 years old.

The wires are the single most limiting factor for recovery, long-term complications, and subsequently... how you're instructed to live your life post-op.

Over the past 25 years i've had a pocket dislocation, a wire pull out from the pacemaker, and an infected incision. All because I was just a kid trying to live a normal life.

This is something I've hoped for since I was like 12. There has been news about the development of something like this since around that same time.

This is far bigger news than what the article is portraying.

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