Mar-11-11
A balloon catheter using a stretchable electronics array of sensors and electrodes allows arrhythmia to be treated with one catheter instead of two.
Developed by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the catheter consists of a flexible mesh of sensors and electrodes laminated onto a conventional endocardial balloon catheter. When the catheter is inflated and makes contact with the cardiac muscle, the sensors gather data and determine the locations of irregularly beating cells, and, in a process known as ablation, the adjacent electrode kill the irregular cells.
The catheter has been a success in trials on live animals.
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