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New 3D printed mechanical and microfluid dynamic medical devices for injection into cardiac muscle tissue and ultrasound imaging.
Rel. Danilo Demarchi. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2023
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Heart failure is still one of the most common and costly hospitalizations in the United States. The goal is to enable patients, who survive a myocardial infarction, to live longer by limiting the effects of damaged myocardium. Scientific and clinical attention has focused on regenerative medicine, which uses stem cell therapies and cardiac ablation to correct heart rhythm disorders. This has fueled research on new advanced intramyocardial delivery devices. They are useful for the direct administration into the myocardium, via injection in open-chest procedures, of various drug compounds, an action that requires certain methods of mixing, administration, precision, timing, and monitoring.
Implementation difficulties, however, remain a crucial challenge for further development, especially in therapies that require mixing of the two fluids close to myocardial tissue
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