Implanting a small electrical defibrillation device near the heart to sense the onset of arrhythmia and jolt the heart back to a normal sinus rhythm can often be the difference between life and death ...

A new 3D virtual heart may help doctors identify which cardiac patients are most at risk for life-threatening arrhythmia and need a defibrillator to keep their heartbeats steady and strong. The ...

This type of model, known as a virtual twin, can do more than identify medical problems—it can provide detailed diagnostic insights. In Boston, the team used the model to predict how the child’s heart ...

EPFL mathematician Alfio Quarteroni and his team are building a virtual heart model based on personalized medical images that may one day help cardiologists and cardiac surgeons non-invasively ...

When electrical waves in the heart run amok in a condition called arrhythmia, sudden death can occur. To save the life of a patient at risk, doctors currently implant a small defibrillator to sense ...

Jonathan Awori, MD, MS, MFA, isn't embarrassed to say it took him a long time to completely understand the intricate workings of the heart. He says he isn't alone; many aspiring doctors and nurses don ...

new video loaded: Brains, Hearts and Heroin Addiction: Medicine in VR transcript Addiction treatment, heart surgery and brain research are just some of the areas where virtual reality is helping to ...

I stand, a cyborg micronaut, in front of the biggest human heart any person has ever seen. It is Arch Obler huge, a flesh pump the size of a skyscraper, but I manipulate it with god-like facility, ...

A research team has developed a non-invasive 3-D virtual heart to help doctors determine who faces the highest risk of a life-threatening arrhythmia and would benefit from a defibrillator implant.

One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children's Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child's heart. The ...