Snipping key nerves may help life threatening heart rhythms, study suggests
Monday, December 19, 2011 - 21:20
in Health & Medicine
According to a new study, cutting key nerves to the heart that control the adrenaline-driven "flight or fight" stress response may help alleviate life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. This is one of the first studies to assess the impact of performing this type of surgery on both sides of the heart to control arrhythmias, called a bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation.