Pat has a new paper published today in the high-profile interdisciplinary research journal Nature Biomedical Engineering! The paper is entitled “Computationally guided personalized targeted ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation”. Click here to read the paper. This work describes a first-in-human clinical pilot study of in persistent AF ablation in 10 patients with treatment directly and explicitly guided by findings gleaned from patient-specific models.
You can also read the press release written by Johns Hopkins or the blog post (featuring an interview with Pat!) by UW Medicine’s Newsroom.
Watch the summary video below, prepared in collaboration by Pat and his mentor at Johns Hopkins University, Prof. Natalia Trayanova.
Video Credit: Patrick M. Boyle and Natalia A. Trayanova