Tecnología Médica

Tecnología Médica

A Simplified Procedure Development of Asynchronous Pacemaker Circuit
12/04/2024 - Asynchronous pacemaker is a medical device that generates and delivers electrical pulses to restore the cardiac rhythm. It delivers pulses by using electrodes to maintain the regular and...
17.1 Omnidirectional Magnetoelectric Power Transfer for Miniaturized Biomedical Implants via Active Echo
12/04/2024 - Wireless, batteryless, and miniaturized implants promise transformative therapies for various neurological, psychiatric, and cardiac disorders. Beyond conventional battery-powered bulky implants...
Utility of new FDG-PET/CT guidelines for diagnosing cardiac sarcoidosis in patients with implanted cardiac pacemakers for atrioventricular block
09/04/2024 - Diagnosing cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), especially in isolated cases, is challenging, particularly due to the limitations of endomyocardial biopsy, leading to potential undiagnosed cases in...
Semiautonomous Robotic Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement
27/03/2024 - Aortic valve surgery is the preferred procedure for replacing a damaged valve with an artificial one. The ValveTech robotic platform comprises a flexible articulated manipulator and surgical...
Prediction of pacemaker-induced cardiomyopathy using a convolutional neural network based on clinical findings prior to pacemaker implantation
25/03/2024 - Risk factors for pacemaker-induced cardiomyopathy (PICM) have been previously reported, including a high burden of right ventricular pacing, lower left ventricular ejection fraction, a wide QRS...
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics based FSI simulation of the native and mechanical heart valves in a patient-specific aortic model
25/03/2024 - The failure of the aortic heart valve is common, resulting in deterioration of the pumping function of the heart. For the end stage valve failure, bi-leaflet mechanical valve (most popular...
A Parylene-Based MEMS Intravascular Implant for Wireless Cardiac Pacing
21/03/2024 - We present a MEMS intravascular implant designed for wireless cardiac pacing. This micropacer implant is meticulously engineered to refine the fabrication process, provide adequate cardiac...
Carbon Nano Tubes-Incorporated Smart Stents to Improve Mechanical Strength and Sensor Reliability
21/03/2024 - Atherosclerosis, a primary manifestation, involves the accumulation of plaques within artery walls, gradually constricting them. To address such constriction, a common intervention involves the...
Selection of social comparison standards in cardiac patients with and without experienced defibrillator shock
11/03/2024 - Patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) often report psychological distress. Literature suggests that patients with physical disease often compare their well-being and coping...
Security and Privacy Issues of Implantable Pacemakers
13/12/2023 - Implantable cardiac devices including pacemakers are among the most important IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) medical devices for treating patients with heart disease, by regulating the...
A Simulation Model for EMC Compliance Assessment of Induction Cooktops for Cardiac Implanted Electronic Devices
30/11/2023 - The increasing medical use of cardiac implanted electronic devices (CIEDs) for heart patients increases the risk of device malfunction or damage due to electromagnetic interference (EMI). In this...
Influence of Heterogeneous Human Body on Midfield Wireless Power Transfer for Implantable Heart Devices
30/11/2023 - Midfield wireless power transfer (WPT), using frequencies ranging from sub-GHz to $2$ GHz, has recently been introduced as an efficient method to wirelessly transmit power to compact implanted...
An optically-coupled logger for the measure of RF-induced voltage on pacemakers and ICDs
09/11/2023 - Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillator are active implantable medical devices (AIMD) composed by an electrical unit (generator) and electrical connections to the heart (lead). They...
Improving the monitoring of chronic heart failure in Argentina: is the implantable pulmonary artery pressure with CardioMEMS Heart Failure System cost-effective?
23/10/2023 - The CardioMEMS® sensor is a wireless pulmonary artery pressure device used for monitoring symptomatic heart failure (HF). The use of CardioMEMS was associated with a reduction of...
Sensor-Free Biosensing of Mitral and Aortic Valvular Function During Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Support
18/09/2023 - Objective: Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices (CF-LVADs) are miniaturised devices supporting the failing left ventricle and alter the blood flow in the cardiovascular system which may...
Thermal analysis in an axial implantable left ventricular assist device based on multi-physical field simulation
18/09/2023 - In the implantable left ventricular assist device (LVAD), the heat leads to destroy of blood and potential thrombosis, which remains a limitation to their long-time clinical use. To study the heat...
Design and Development of a Novel Force-Sensing Robotic System for the Transseptal Puncture in Left Atrial Catheter Ablation
18/09/2023 - Transseptal puncture (TSP) is a prerequisite for left atrial catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, requiring access from the right side of the heart. It is a demanding procedural step...
Design and Implementation of RISC-V based Pacemaker
29/08/2023 - Heart failures are highly increasing in modern times, regardless of patients' age or genders. Arrhythmia is a severe cardiac condition that affects roughly 5% of the world's population and...
Verifying Bio-Electronic Systems
24/08/2023 - The functional safety of implanted medical devices is of high importance. This works presents a novel concept to verify bio-electronic systems modeling the medical device in connection with the...
Development of a Control System for Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias
24/08/2023 - Patients with hereditary or acquired pathologies of the conduction of the ventricles of the heart, due to the extreme danger of such pathologies, need prolonged cardiac monitoring in conditions of...
An Implantable Wireless System for Remote Hemodynamic Monitoring of Heart Failure Patients
22/08/2023 - This paper presents an implantable wireless system for remote hemodynamic monitoring, which enables direct, continuous (24/7), and simultaneous measurement of pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) and...