Minute Insight: Medtronic Counters Abbott With New Micra Leadless Pacemakers
Executive Summary
About a month after it approved Abbott’s Aveir VR leadless pacemaker, the FDA approved two new models of Medtronic’s Micra leadless pacemaker.
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