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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 9, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf6856
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The study proposed a method for treating ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VTA) using subthreshold electrical stimulations with a stretchable epicardial multi-channel electrode array. This method reduces pain, myocardial damage, and recurrence of arrhythmia, providing opportunities for painless ICD therapy.
The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is an effective method to prevent sudden cardiac death in high -risk patients. However, the transvenous lead is incompatible with large-area electrophysiological mapping and cannot accommodate selective multichannel precision stimulations. Moreover, it involves high-energy shocks, resulting in pain, myocardial damage, and recurrences of ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VTA). We present a method for VTA treatment based on subthreshold electrical stimulations using a stretchable epicardial multi-channel electrode array, which does not disturb the normal contraction or electrical propagation of the ventri-cle. In rabbit models with myocardial infarction, the infarction was detected by mapping intracardiac electrograms with the stretchable epicardial multichannel electrode array. Then, VTAs could be terminated by sequential electrical stimuli from the epicardial multichannel electrode array beginning with low-energy sub-threshold stimulations. Last, we used these subthreshold stimulations to prevent the occurrence of additional VTAs. The proposed protocol using the stretchable epicardial multichannel electrode array provides opportu-nities toward the development of innovative methods for painless ICD therapy.
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