{"id":90579,"date":"2019-05-10T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/treatment-to-restore-natural-heartbeat-could-be-on-the-horizon-for-heart-failure"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T20:43:17","slug":"treatment-to-restore-natural-heartbeat-could-be-on-the-horizon-for-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/treatment-to-restore-natural-heartbeat-could-be-on-the-horizon-for-heart-failure","title":{"rendered":"Treatment to restore natural heartbeat could be on the horizon for heart failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/treatment-to-restore-natural-heartbeat-could-be-on-the-horizon-for-heart-failure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new therapy to re-engage the heart\u2019s natural electrical pathways\u2014instead of bypassing them\u2014could mean more treatment options for heart failure patients who also suffer from electrical disturbances, such as arrhythmias, according to research led by the University of Chicago Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In a first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/pilot+study\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pilot study<\/a>, called the His SYNC trial, researchers compared the effectiveness of two different cardiac resynchronization therapies, or treatments to correct irregularities in the heartbeat through implanted pacemakers and defibrillators. The current standard of care, known as biventricular pacing, uses two pacing impulses in both lower chambers, whereas the newer approach, called His bundle pacing, attempts to work toward engaging and restoring the heart\u2019s natural physiology. The two approaches have never before been directly compared in a head-to-head clinical trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first prospective study in our field to compare outcomes between different ways to achieve cardiac resynchronization,\u201d said cardiologist Roderick Tung, MD, FHRS, the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology &amp; EP Laboratories at the University of Chicago Medicine. \u201cThrough His bundle pacing, we\u2019re trying to tap into the normal wiring of the heart and restore conduction the way nature intended. Previously, we have just accepted that we had to bypass it through pacing two ventricles at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-treatment-natural-heartbeat-horizon-heart.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new therapy to re-engage the heart\u2019s natural electrical pathways\u2014instead of bypassing them\u2014could mean more treatment options for heart failure patients who also suffer from electrical disturbances, such as arrhythmias, according to research led by the University of Chicago Medicine. In a first-ever pilot study, called the His SYNC trial, researchers compared the effectiveness of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}