Rice University and Waseda engineers’ sophisticated simulation shows how blood flows through the heart. We all want to know what goes on in the heart of a significant other. Well, here’s one way to look at it. This view inside a beating heart is one not seen — or even seeable — until now, according...
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Deeper understanding of irregular heartbeat may lead to more effective treatment
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON Researchers at Imperial have shown how the chaotic electrical signals underlying irregular heart rhythms lead to the failure of standard treatments. By modelling how electrical signals on the inside and the outside of the heart move across the muscle, researchers at Imperial College London have suggested why corrective surgery is not currently...
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New model of irregular heartbeat could boost drug efficacy
Patients with irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmia, have few effective treatment options — available drugs are not always effective, and an implanted defibrillator can be too aggressive. Jonathan Silva, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has developed the first computational model that shows the molecular...
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Atrial fibrillation: Daily alcoholic drink riskier than binge drinking
A new study suggests that drinking small amounts of alcohol frequently rather than having infrequent bouts of binge drinking is more likely to increase the risk of developing atrial fibrillation (A-fib), a condition in which the heart beats irregularly. New research suggests that drinking daily may harm the heart’s regular rhythm more than binge drinking....