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Focused ultrasound is used to create local foci of lesions in the myocardium. It is shown that this method can be used for the treatment of monofocal tachycardias. The effect of focused ultrasound on the myocardium, coronary artery, and atrioventricular node is studied in experiments on dogs, and the ultrasound-destroyed zones of the myocardium are investigated morphologically.
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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 118, No 7, pp. 104–107, July, 1994
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Nemkov, A.S., Merkulova, L.I., Lebedev, L.V. et al. Effect of ultrasound on the myocardium and cardiac conduction (A morphological study). Bull Exp Biol Med 118, 792–795 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02444390
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02444390