Interesting Developments....

• by Tattoo Man
• 2014-10-13 03:10:06
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.........cardiac news from the London Times, yesterday.

British doctors have conducted the world's first major heart operations on patients in a MRI scanner, using the machine to help them guide a probe to defective tissue and destroy it.....

Two men and a woman, all suffering from a dangerously erratic heartbeat, have been successfully treated at St Thomas' Hospital, London, in a procedure that saw catheters guided deep into their beating heart from an incision in the groin...

....Atrial Flutter....

Two of the patients treated, all within the past few months, appear to have been cured, while the third needed a second operation.

Professor Reza Razavi , head of imaging sciences at King's College, London, who jointly led the operation with Professor Mark O'neill, said : " The MRI lets us see a 3D image of the heart on a screen....

Up till now surgeons had to map the heart in advance using x-rays..effectively only a 'snapshot' of the heart along with long term exposure to x-rays

" This is ground breaking study".. says Prof Razavi...

Dr Henry Chubb, a researcher at Kings's, who works with Razavi,

said such operations could change a patients life....

As the Chinese are wont to say...'Live in interesting times'...or something like that !

TM...best wishes to all, here at PMC