A new type of wireless pacemaker is helping heart patients overcome the psychological and physical challenges associated with conventional models, but the benefits come at a price – HK$95,000 a time.
Dr Lau Chu-pak, a cardiologist at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam, said pacemakers were given to people experiencing unusually slow heartbeats, under 60 beats a minute, or lulls in their heart beat.
Lau said the new, smaller pacemaker, first introduced in the city in 2015, was inserted by...
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