Biomedical engineers from King’s College in London, working with cardiologists at St. Thomas Hospital have successfully used a new, combined MR and X-ray procedure in twelve cardiac patients who needed pacemakers. The approach provides physicians with new, real time data as they implant the pacemaker.
“Patients that are having pacemaker implants for heart failure can now have these implants tailored to their particular needs,” Dr. Kawal Rhode, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering at King’s College, told HCB News. “We have seen that the use of this technique can improve the patient’s response to pacemaker implant both short and long term.”
