Haissaguerre Lab

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ERC Advanced Grant · 2021

Unique non-invasive pace-mapping system to identify subjects at risk of arrhythmic sudden death

Sudden Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a common cause of adult mortality in western countries, accounting in Europe for about 350 000 cases annually. Most SCDs are caused by ventricular arrhythmias generated from an arrhythmogenic ‘substrate’ present within the heart. Paradoxically, despite the existence of efficient preventive therapies, the sole available predictor of SCD is a measure of cardiac contractility, an indirect metric, which applies only to a subset of patients. At present, most patients at risk cannot be identified pre-emptively to prevent sudden death. My aim is to develop a novel non-invasive body-surface mapping and pacing system, which will allow detection of cardiac signals…

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