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The heart of the matter: from guided microtools to 3-D printing and precision genome editing, promising research could lead to new advances in pediatric cardiology.
IEEE Pulse 2015 May
The smooth, powerful muscles of a newborn baby?s heart are pulsing normally, squeezing in and letting go rhythmically as a 3-mm-wide catheter-like tube snakes its way through, entering via an artery and being guided slowly by a surgeon. When it reaches its target?a protruding knot of malformed muscle tissue within a ventricle that has been partly blocking the valve?the tip of the precisely controlled tube whirs into action, with tiny scissor-like rotating blades gently grinding up the excess tissue as those pieces are sucked back into the device, leaving no floating particles that could lead to a blockage elsewhere. The defect is fully removed, and the heart?s function is restored to normal, leaving the child with the prospect of a normal life. The whole minimally invasive process takes place inside a beating heart and would otherwise have required open-heart surgery, with the heart stopped for a cardiopulmonary bypass.
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