{"id":4898,"date":"2016-05-29T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2016-05-29T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T19:58:17","slug":"3d-heart-models-healing-real-world-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/3d-heart-models-healing-real-world-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"3D heart models healing real-world patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4826\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image02-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"3D heart models\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered that 3D models of patients\u2019 hearts could help doctors assess a person\u2019s risk of developing life-threatening arrhythmias. Sudden cardiac death from arrhythmias is a leading cause of mortality, and for high-risk patients, insertion of implantable defibrillators can help reduce mortality. Researchers created personalized computer models based on MRI scans for 41 patients who had previously experienced a heart attack. They then retrospectively tested the subjects&#8217; results using clinical data from the patients. The research team found that their approach significantly outperformed existing clinical metrics for predicting future life-threatening changes in heart rhythm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hermenegild J. Arevalo, Fijoy Vadakkumpadan, Eliseo Guallar, Alexander Jebb, Peter Malamas, Katherine C. Wu, Natalia A. Trayanova<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Natalia A. Trayanova,\u00a0Institute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Arrhythmia risk stratification of patients after myocardial infarction using personalized heart models\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2016\/160510\/ncomms11437\/full\/ncomms11437.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper <\/a>published on May 10, 2016 in <em>Nature Communications<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered that 3D models of patients\u2019 hearts could help doctors assess a person\u2019s risk of developing life-threatening arrhythmias. Sudden cardiac death from arrhythmias is a leading cause of mortality, and for high-risk patients, insertion of implantable defibrillators can help reduce mortality. Researchers created personalized computer models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2614,2613,2612,1989,2615],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-3d-models","tag-3d-organ-models","tag-arrhythmia","tag-cardiovascular-health","tag-implantable-cardioverter-defibrillators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1h0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}