Medtronic Micra TPS Meets Global Clinical Trial's Safety and Effectiveness Endpoints

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In the largest clinical data presentation ever of transcatheter pacing patients, Medtronic plc
MDT
today announced that the Medtronic Micra® Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) was successfully implanted in nearly all patients in the trial - 99.2 percent - and met its safety and effectiveness endpoints with wide margins. These data, from the Medtronic Micra® TPS Global Clinical Trial, were presented during a late-breaking Special Report session today at the 2015 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "We are extremely pleased with the remarkably successful implant rates and safety profile of the Micra pacemaker, including the absence of device dislodgments. We are especially confident in these results because the trial included patients with serious comorbidities from 19 countries on five continents around the world," said Dwight Reynolds, M.D., trial principal investigator and regent's professor and chief of the Cardiovascular Section at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. "The Micra TPS not only met
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