Arrhythmia is defined as irregular heartbeat actually, and it can be the heart beating too slow, too fast, or it’s just simply irregular. But it causes a variety of symptoms, usually the people feel palpitations where there’s an awareness of the heartbeat being irregular or strong or more dangerously, people feel fainting and people sometimes collapse and even die suddenly.
The causes for arrhythmia are multiple obviously, like any other condition in health, but the most common cause is damage to the heart — heart valve, heart muscle, enlarged heart. It can also be congenital. People can be born with it, or it can also be caused by drugs or other things. There’s a variety of treatment for arrhythmia nowadays.
Just like most conditions in health, the first line of therapy is typically drug therapy but actually in the past 2, 3 decades we’re finding out that drug therapy, except for the mild arrhythmia, just simply does not work for the more serious ones. Learn here how to stop ectopic beats
So the most commonly used, because of higher efficacy is what we call catheter ablation. Catheter ablation is a therapy whereby small wires are inserted into the heart and map out the rhythm, the origin of the bad rhythm, and cauterize that part and eliminate the arrhythmia. Some of the arrhythmias cannot be cured or medicated.
These are the ones causing sudden death. So those types of arrhythmia are treated by prevention of the sudden death by implantation of devices like defibrillators. Surgery can also be done for cardiac arrhythmias. Not common that surgery is done for the cardiac arrhythmia alone.
Typically it is coupled to the other procedure, other surgical intervention such as the replacement of a heart valve, and it can then be combined with what they Maze procedure for atrial fibrillation for instance. Other miniaturized surgical procedure use the epicardial approach, the so-called minithoracautomy and so forth are also available.
Just like the simplest to the most complex type of ablation to device implantation. Surgery can also be done to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but because catheter ablation, meaning the non-surgical type of cure, is so advanced and so much better tolerated by the patient surgery is rarely done as the only treatment for arrhythmias.
Usually a combination of replacing the valve, doing bypass surgery, or other type of cardiac surgery whereby the arrhythmia therapy is added on. The most common surgical therapy for arrhythmia is the Maze procedure for atrial fibrillation for instance. Other surgical procedures are also available that is less invasive, and these are called the minimally invasive surgery that is also available for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
It’s very advanced and has very comprehensive program for the treatment of all types of arrhythmias. Being in a bay area it is also quite advanced and in fact it’s the most technologically advanced hospital in the country, in the world. And for that reason, all services are just as technologically advanced, and it is very well staffed.
The success rates for arrhythmia procedures are excellent. The success implant rate for devices are outstanding. So it is in my opinion one of the best places to go to for the treatment of your arrhythmia.
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