Placement of electrodes determines the prognosis for heart patients
Mads Brix Kronborg is a new Doctor of Medical Science (DMSc) at Aarhus University. In his higher doctoral dissertation, he has examined where electrodes for pacemakers or implantable defibrillators (ICD units) should be placed to ensure the best possible prognosis for heart patients.
The placement of electrodes for the heart is not unimportant when a heart patient has an electronic device in the form of either a pacemaker or an ICD implanted. New Doctor of Medical Science Mads Brix Kronborg from the Department of Clinical Medicine carries out research into how medical doctors should place the electrodes optimally in connection with invasive treatment.
One of the things Mads Brix Kronborg examined is how electrodes for a pacemaker are best placed in patients with a slow cardiac rhythm, so that the heart is activated as normally as possible. His studies also include patients with a delay in the electrical impulses in the heart in combination with heart failure, with these patients receiving what is known as resynchronisation therapy (CRT). For this patient group, Mads Brix Kronborg has examined how an electrode outside the left ventricle works best.
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MD, DMSc & PhD Mads Brix Kronborg
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Cardiology
Email: mads.brix.kronborg@clin.au.dk