Injectable Hydrogel Electrodes Open Door to a Novel Painless Treatment Regimen for Arrhythmia (IMAGE)

Texas Heart Institute

Injectable Hydrogel Electrodes Open Door to a Novel Painless Treatment Regimen for Arrhythmia

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A breakthrough study led by Dr. Mehdi Razavi at The Texas Heart Institute (THI), in collaboration with a chemical and biomedical engineering team of The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) Cockrell School of Engineering led by Dr. Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, sets the foundation of a ground-breaking treatment regimen for treating ventricular arrhythmia.  Their study published in Nature Communications demonstrates the design and feasibility of a new hydrogel-based pacing modality.

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