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Article: Radio waves have rhythm to cure heart
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 26, 1989
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ANAHEIM, Calif. Researchers are using the same radio waves that
broadcast golden oldies on the AM dial to treat patients with
uncontrolled rapid heartbeats, a method they say is safer and less
painful than other techniques.
Non-surgical techniques include the application of alcohol and
electrical shocks to the heart using long thin tubes called
catheters, which are inserted through blood vessels.
For now, patients who have a pea-sized part of their heart
zapped to death with radio frequency energy must wear pacemakers
afterward, as do almost all patients who have their abnormal
heartbeats fixed with the older method of electrical shock, said Dr.
Jonathan Langberg of the University of ...