image: This is a schematic showing the effect of pacemaker-induced transient asynchrony (PITA) on sarcomere structure (images) and cardiomyocyte function (curves) in a failing heart. Both are depressed in heart failure, but restored by PITA. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 23, 2015 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.A. Kirk at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Pacemaker-induced transient asynchrony suppresses heart failure progression." view more
Credit: Jonathan Kirk