AI tool helps pinpoint problem heart cells in ventricular tachycardia
An AI tool could help cardiologists identify and target cells that trigger arrhythmia in patients with ventricular tachycardia, a serious heart condition.
Aug 26, 2025
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Surgical Procedures, Operative: News and Research on Ablation Techniques
MeSH tree: E04.014
An alternative to LASIK—without the lasers
Millions of Americans have altered vision, ranging from blurriness to blindness. But not everyone wants to wear prescription glasses or contact lenses. Accordingly, hundreds of thousands of people undergo corrective eye surgery ...
Aug 18, 2025
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Exercise rehab can lessen severity, frequency and recurrence of irregular heart rhythm
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation lessens the severity, frequency, and recurrence of the most common form of irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation, or AF for short, finds a pooled data analysis of the available ...
Jul 29, 2025
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Indicators of neuropathic ocular pain identified after LASIK
In a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, diagnostic indicators are identified for confirming chronic neuropathic ocular pain (NOP) for patients experiencing chronic dry eye (DE) after ...
Jul 22, 2025
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Study emphasizes the importance of controlling heart rhythm before mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair
Patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) at the time of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) for severe mitral regurgitation are more than twice as likely to die or be rehospitalized for heart ...
Jul 17, 2025
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A-fib catheter ablation cuts risk for ischemic stroke after 30 days, mortality, heart failure hospitalization
For patients with atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation reduces the risk of ischemic stroke at more than 30 days, mortality, and heart failure hospitalization, while surgical ablation only reduces stroke risk, according ...
Jul 7, 2025
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An AI-based classification system for facial pigmented lesions
A research team has developed a diagnostic system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately identify the type of facial pigmented lesions and support laser treatment decisions. A paper on this study was published ...
Jul 1, 2025
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Engineered with heart: Student-designed device could streamline imaging for cardiac procedures
Irregular heartbeats affect more than 4 million Americans, and for many, the treatment is cardiac ablation—a procedure that uses long, flexible catheters inserted through blood vessels to modify small areas of the heart and ...
Jun 4, 2025
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Attaching fluorescing dye to oral cancer proteins could yield powerful prediction tool for varying cancer types
Some 10 million people in the U.S. have oral premalignant disease, a group of diseases that show up as red patches, white patches or rough patches in the mouth and that might—or might not—develop into cancer.
May 27, 2025
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Real-time AI-driven decision support aids catheter ablation
An artificial intelligence (AI)-driven model can significantly improve procedural safety in cardiac electrophysiology with real-time decision support, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Heart Rhythm ...
May 7, 2025
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