But a new study has shown that an existing immunotherapy could stop scar tissue formation after heart attacks. When the heart sustains an injury, such as a heart attack, the damaged tissue often ...

Ablation, a procedure to treat abnormal electrical short circuits caused by a heart attack and is usually reserved for ...

The episodes, called ventricular tachycardia, result from scar tissue left by a heart attack TUESDAY, Nov. 19, 2024 ...

A new, multicenter study demonstrated that ablation treatment may be a better first option than medication for many heart ...

Heart failure is responsible for 13 percent of deaths worldwide, and half of patients die within 5 years. New therapies are ...

And while this scar tissue forms initially to maintain the ... responsible for the development of heart failure after a heart attack. This important distinction — whether GPNMB is just an ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine have reduced scar ... models of heart failure using a monoclonal antibody treatment. Untreated mice develop major scarring after cardiac injury (purple tissue ...