A team of University of Auckland UoA researchers led by Professor Julian Paton and Dr Rohit Ramchandra are developing the pacemaker, which can potentially reverse the decline in function in the failing heart. Unlike current cardiac pacemakers which pace the heart at regular intervals, this new device modulates heart rate in response to breathing. This natural variability is lost in many people with cardiac diseases.
Now the Heart Foundation is funding fellow UoA researcher Dr David Crossman to use a new state-of-the-art microscope to investigate which heart muscle cells the pacemaker acts on. With no qualification criteria and around 50 sports on the program, there is something for everyone.
Contact us: newsdesk australianseniorsnews. Sign in. Log into your account. Forgot your password? Password recovery. Recover your password. Friday, January 14, This procedure had never been done in this part of the world so the chances of survival were very low, but we were lucky that the doctor at the time was Dr Roger Mee.
In , the Heart Foundation funded an Overseas Training Fellowship for Dr Roger Mee, helping to pave the way for him to become a world-renowned paediatric heart surgeon and save the Mutu twins' lives. With our ongoing commitment to supporting research, we can keep saving lives and improve the quality of life for the , New Zealanders living with heart disease," says Heart Foundation Medical Director Dr Gerry Devlin.
But heart disease still claims over 6, lives in New Zealand each year and one preventable death is one too many. Heart disease also impacts significantly on the day-to-day activities of Kiwis.
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