{"id":2834,"date":"2021-12-08T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusfoundation.org\/?post_type=sw_disease_condition&#038;p=2834"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:22:36","slug":"cardiac-arrythmia","status":"publish","type":"sw_disease_condition","link":"https:\/\/www.fusfoundation.org\/diseases-and-conditions\/cardiac-arrythmia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiac Arrythmia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-focused-ultrasound-therapy\">Focused Ultrasound Therapy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound is a noninvasive, therapeutic technology with the potential to improve the quality of life and decrease the cost of care for patients with ventricular tachycardia. This novel technology focuses beams of ultrasound energy precisely and accurately on targets deep in the body without damaging surrounding normal tissue. While there are many forms of cardiac arrythmia, the majority of this work has been done on ventricular tachycardia so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How it Works<\/strong><br>Where the beams converge, focused ultrasound can produce precise ablation (thermal destruction) of the malfunctioning tissue that is causing the ventricular tachycardia. Another option is to ablate the stellate ganglion, as this elevates the threshold for ventricular fibrillation. Both of these steps are accomplished noninvasively. These preclinical projects have been recently accomplished, but it will take further studies before clinical use can occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advantages<\/strong><br>The primary options for treatment of ventricular tachycardia include medication and invasive surgical procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For certain patients, focused ultrasound could provide a noninvasive alternative to surgery with less risk of complications \u2013 such as surgical wound healing or infection \u2013 at a lower cost. Focused ultrasound can also reach the desired target without damaging surrounding tissue, and it can be repeated, if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-clinical-trials\">Clinical Trials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the present time, there are no clinical trials recruiting patients for focused ultrasound treatment of ventricular tachycardia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foundation updates these pages regularly, but with the increasing number of clinical trials, we want to be sure that our audience has the latest information available. Therefore, we also added the website search information for the above trials. If you click <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicaltrials.gov\/search?cond=Ventricular%20Arrythmia&amp;term=focused%20ultrasound&amp;aggFilters=status:not%20rec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, it will take you to the latest information available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clinicaltrials.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.clinicaltrials.gov\/<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-regulatory-approval-and-reimbursement\">Regulatory Approval and Reimbursement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound treatment for ventricular tachycardia is not yet approved by regulatory bodies or covered by medical insurance companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-notable-papers\">Notable Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Xiang C, Cheng Y, Yu X, Mao T, Luo H, Hu H, Wu Y, Sang R, Wang Z, Wang Y, Luo Q, Huang J, Zhao J, Wang J, Wang X, Chen M, Liu W, Zhou L, Wang S, Jiang H. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38042443\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>Low-intensity focused ultrasound modulation of the paraventricular nucleus to prevent myocardial infarction-induced ventricular arrhythmia<\/strong><\/a>. Heart Rhythm. 2023 Nov 30:S1547-5271(23)02976-4. doi: 10.1016\/j.hrthm.2023.11.026. PMID: 38042443&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wang S, Li B, Li X, Wu L, Zhu T, Zhao D, Jiang H.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32079857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Low-intensity ultrasound modulation may prevent myocardial infarction induced sympathetic neural activation and ventricular arrhythmia<\/strong><\/a>. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2020 Feb 17. doi: 10.1097\/FJC.0000000000000810.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yao Y, Qian J, Rong S, Huang Y, Xiong B, Yang G, Zhang D, Deng S, Tan J, Zhu Q, Deng C, Liu D, Ran H, Wang Z, Huang J.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30527842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Cardiac Denervation for Arrhythmia Treatment with Transesophageal Ultrasonic Strategy in Canine Models<\/strong><\/a>. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2019 Feb;45(2):490-499. doi: 10.1016\/j.ultrasmedbio.2018.10.013. Epub 2018 Dec 6.<br><br>L\u00fc F, Huang W, Benditt DG.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29431260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>A feasibility study of noninvasive ablation of ventricular tachycardia using high-intensity focused ultrasound<\/strong><\/a>. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2018 May;29(5):788-794. doi: 10.1111\/jce.13459. Epub 2018 Mar 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=(%22focused+ultrasound%22+OR+HIFU)+and+%22ventricular+tachycardia%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here<\/a> for additional references from PubMed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"sw_disease_condition_cat":[5],"sw_disease_condition_stage":[14],"class_list":["post-2834","sw_disease_condition","type-sw_disease_condition","status-publish","hentry","sw_disease_condition_cat-cardiovascular"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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