Treating Irregular Heartbeat By Laser Destruction Misfiring Cells

Treating Irregular Heartbeat By Laser Destruction Misfiring Cells.
A inexperienced style to treating irregular heartbeats appears to have demonstrated success in halting irregular electrical pulses in both patients and pigs, new research indicates ultima. In essence, the different intervention - known as "visually guided laser-balloon catheter" - enables doctors to much more accurately goal the so-called "misfiring cells" that emit the irregular electrical impulses that can cause an odd heartbeat.

In fact, with this new approach, the study team found that physicians could destroy such cells with 100 percent accuracy yeastrol. This, they said, is due to the procedure's use of a insufficient medical device called an endoscope, which when inserted into the end region provides a continuous real-time image of the culprit cells.

The habitual means for getting at misfiring cells relies on pre-intervention X-rays for a much less precise snapshot form of visual guidance. The findings are reported by examination author Dr Vivek Y Reddy, a superior faculty member in medicine and cardiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues in the May 26 online printing of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.