Medications

Study shows hydroxychloroquine's harmful effects on heart rhythm

The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been promoted as a potential treatment for COVID-19, is known to have potentially serious effects on heart rhythms. Now, a team of researchers has used an optical mapping system ...

Cardiology

A virtual heart to simulate arrhythmia

A group of researchers from MIPT and Ghent University (Belgium) has developed the first realistic model of the complex cardiac microstructure. The researchers hope that the model will elucidate the causes of fibrosis, which ...