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Radio Wave Technique May Help Heart Attack Survivors by Reducing ICD Shocks

Posted December 31st, 2007 by SCAFoundation

December 31, 2007­–Treating heart attack victims with radio waves helps reduce the likelihood that implantable defibrillators will need to jolt ailing hearts into beating properly, researchers reported last week.

The radio-wave technique involves sending a probe into the heart, finding scar tissue from an earlier heart attack, and using radio waves to destroy the portion of that scar that can catastrophically disrupt the heartbeat.