Microbubbles And Ultrasound Improve Myocardial Remodelling After Infarction
Saturday, February 23, 2013 - 04:40
in Health & Medicine
Every year in Germany, approximately 280,000 people suffer a myocardial infarction; more than 52,000 die as a result. Due to an occluded vessel, parts of the heart muscle no longer have sufficient circulation and the tissue dies off. These regions are not replaced by new heart muscle cells but instead by scar tissue – this generally causes the pump function of the heart to decrease following an infarction. Scientists have tested a method in mice allowing the morphological and functional sequelae of a myocardial infarction to be reduced and with which scar tissue can be reduced and cardiac output increased. read more