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...Heart transplants are apparently not the answer to severe cardiac disease: of some 200 patients round the world who have been given new hearts, only 26, or 13%, are still alive. But transplants do seem to be the solution for many of those who suffer from serious kidney problems. A report published...
...breakthrough in the research, Verrier said, was the discovery of "echo beats," a pattern of heartbeats which signals imminent cardiac failure. This finding allowed the researchers to induce heart failure in dogs without killing them...
Verrier said he is "cautions" in applying the experiment's results to humans. "If it is transferable," he said, "the conclusion is that psychological stress factors such as anxiety or fear affect the stability of human cardiac rhythm to a greater degree than we expected...
...know that psychological stress has an important effect," Verrier said. "Now for the first time we can systematically study that effect on cardiac rhythms and with our model, try to devise approaches to therapy in humans...
...addition, he developed a technique for continuous cardiac monitoring and was the first physician to apply it clinically...