Open AccessIntroducer Design Concepts for an Epicardial Parallel Wire Robot
Author(s) -
Aman Ladak,
Deepika Dixit,
M. Scott Halbreiner,
Michael J. Passineau,
Srinivas Murali,
Cameron N. Riviere
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
robotic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2324-5344
DOI - 10.2147/rsrr.s327069
Subject(s) - pericardium , mechanism (biology) , robot , biomedical engineering , computer science , simulation , medicine , surgery , artificial intelligence , physics , quantum mechanics
Cardiac gene therapies lack effective delivery methods to the myocardium. While direct injection has demonstrated success over a small region, homogenous gene expression requires many injections over a large area. To address this need, we developed a minimally invasive flexible parallel wire robot for epicardial interventions. To accurately deploy it onto the beating heart, an introducer mechanism is required.