Revolutionising access to the human heart

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

Sometimes what makes a technology a 'breakthrough' is the fact that it doesn't break through at all. Take, for example, the novel epicardial ablation techniques developed by Dr Srijoy Mahapatra. While current treatments for heart problems such as congestive heart failure centre on surgical techniques, he seeks to treat the heart from the outside, without breaking through the heart's tissue...

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