New Stretchable Electronics Device Promises to Make Cardiac Ablation Therapy Simpler, Northwestern University Study

Physorg.com -- In an improvement over open-heart surgery, cardiologists now use catheters to eliminate damaged heart tissue in certain patients, such as those with arrhythmias. But this, too, can be a long and painful procedure as many catheters, with different functions, need to be inserted sequentially.

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