Cardiovascular Business February 23, 2023
Engineers and cardiologists have developed a new way of converting cardiac imaging results into soft, flexible models of a patient’s heart, sharing their work in Science Robotics.[1]
The team’s 3D-printed models are functional in ways that could potentially make a significant impact on patient care. They can duplicate the way the heart pumps blood, for instance, and even mimic aortic stenosis (AS).
“All hearts are different,” first author Luca Rosalia, a graduate student with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a prepared statement. “There are massive variations, especially when patients are sick. The advantage of our system is that we can recreate not just the form of a patient’s heart, but also its function in both physiology and...
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