(ANSA) – ASCOLI PICENO, 02 NOV – At the Cardiology of the ‘Mazzoni’ hospital in Ascoli Piceno directed by Dr. Pierfrancesco Grossi, the first patient in Europe has been enrolled in the scientific research “Vivo Study” which will involve 125 patients in 10 centers in the Netherlands, Great Britain, Portugal, Ireland and Germany and Italy, represented by the Ascoli center of the vast Area 5. The main researcher of the study is Dr. Procolo Marchese (head of the Electrophysiopathology Unit) and the co-researcher is the dr.
Francesca Gennaro; it concerns patients suffering from very numerous ventricular extrasystoles for which invasive therapy with ablation using catheters is necessary.
It is based on the preliminary use of a non-invasive system that combines the images of a CT scan or a cardiac magnetic resonance with the signals coming from a standard electrocardiogram and generates a 3D model of the heart that shows the starting point of the extrasystoles. This will provide valuable information to the doctor (and the patient) on the therapeutic strategy to be adopted. In the patient in question, the system made it possible to identify the site of the ventricular extrasystoles within the aortic bulb, between the two coronary cusps and therefore in a complex and delicate point. An intracardiac echo guided 3D electroanatomical mapping approach was therefore adopted which, integrated with CT images, allowed to reconstruct the anatomy in real time and to reach the exact point where ablation was performed with rapid interruption of the tachycardia. and without any damage to surrounding structures (including coronaries). The patient, who had over 27,000 extrasystoles per day before the procedure, was discharged without any arrhythmia and will be checked at 3, 6 and 12 months. (HANDLE).
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