Implantable Micropacemaker Designed For Unborn Baby Hearts
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 09:40
in Health & Medicine
With each beat of a healthy heart, an electrical signal moves from the upper to the lower chambers of the heart. As this signal moves, it results in the heart contracting and pumping blood. Congenital heart block is a defect of the heart's electrical system that originates in the developing fetus, greatly slowing the rate of the heart and impacting its ability to pump blood.Although the condition can be diagnosed in utero, all attempts to treat the condition with a standard pacemaker have failed. Each year, approximately 500 pregnancies in the U. S. are affected by such fetal heart block - those babies may soon have the perfect solution. read more