Development and Analysis of a Minimally Invasive Post-Infarction Epicardial Patch Delivery Device

After a myocardial infarct (heart attack), the heart develops scar tissue that can impede normal function and eventually result in heart failure. There are a number of methods currently employed in the field to slow this degeneration, but none focus on explicitly returning the heart to pre-heart att...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tagoe, Jonathan(Jonathan N.)
Other Authors: Roche, Ellen
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138951