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AI ECG Tool Detects Caregiver’s Critical Heart Damage

6/23/2026

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EchoNext flagged heart injury in 45-year-old caregiver Louie Quiros after emergency doctors first treated him for asthma from wildfire smoke, prompting an echocardiogram that showed a 10 percent ejection fraction and mitral valve leakage.
Dr. Pierre Elias, AI medical director at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, created EchoNext, which reads an ECG in under 10 minutes.
Pathway Labs, Elias’s company, is preparing to market EchoNext while the clinical trial continues.

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EchoNext flagged heart injury in 45-year-old caregiver Louie Quiros after emergency doctors first treated him for asthma from wildfire smoke, prompting an echocardiogram that showed a 10 percent ejection fraction and mitral valve leakage.
Dr. Pierre Elias, AI medical director at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, created EchoNext, which reads an ECG in under 10 minutes.
Pathway Labs, Elias’s company, is preparing to market EchoNext while the clinical trial continues.