New Discovery at Texas Heart Institute and Rice targets the number one cause of sudden death

Ventricular arrhythmia is the number one cause of sudden death in the United States and many developing countries around the world.  A new discovery by Dr. Mehdi Razavi and colleagues at Rice University could one day be used instead of a drug to treat them.

Read the Full Story Thread-like fiber stitched into heart could be answer to arrythmias

 


Original Publication

McCauley MD, Vitale F, Yan JS, et al. In vivo restoration of myocardial conduction with carbon nanotube fibers Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 2019;12 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCEP.119.00725