Catheter Ablation Recovery After you go home: You may feel sore, tired, or have some discomfort in your chest for a few days. You may need to nap more than usual for a few days as you recover. It can take several weeks for the work done during your procedure to turn into scar tissu...
Click on the image for a YouTube video of Ross parachuting after his procedure ABOUT THE WOLF PROCEDURE For patients with AFib, and specially those patients who have had more than one AFib catheter ablation procedure or other devices installed in their heart, the Wolf Procedure can be life-cha...
"Survey results show Fix AFib patients have a 'significant, meaningful difference in their quality of life' after an ablation procedure." "As a whole, patients' pre-procedure scores improve by over 30 points after an ablation with the Fix AFib Clinic." ...
After the procedure, your doctor watches you in an intensive care unit (ICU). They monitor your heart’s activity with a test called anEKGand give you pain medication to help you stay comfortable. AV node ablation.Atrioventricular (AV) node ablation uses catheters to make scars in the AV ...
After successful ablation of the AV node, electrical discharges from the atria can no longer reach the ventricles. Destruction of the AV node (whether by catheter ablation or by the disease that occurs with age) can lead to an excessively slow rate of ventricular contractions (slow heart rate)...
Results from a new clinical trial found overweight and obese patients with persistent and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) who lose weight prior to a catheter ablation procedure have improved clinical outcomes. The study, led by researchers with UHealth—the University of Miami Health System and ...
Before the development of catheter ablation, open heart surgery was done to interrupt conducting pathways in both atria. This is called the surgical maze procedure. Maze surgery is usually considered in patients who need some other type of heart surgery, such as valve repair or coronary artery by...
When drugs and electrical treatments aren't working, your doctor may suggest a procedure called ablation. While you're sedated, a cardiologist will insert a thin, flexible tube into a large blood vessel and guide it to the spot in your heart that's misfiring. They'll destroy the tissue the...
When drugs and electrical treatments aren't working, your doctor may suggest a procedure called ablation. While you're sedated, a cardiologist will insert a thin, flexible tube into a large blood vessel and guide it to the spot in your heart that's misfiring. They'll destroy the tissue the...
They then compared these groupings to their actual outcomes after ablation. They found that their model had a 76 percent sensitivity ¾ the ability to correctly identify those who were unlikely to have successful ablations ¾ and 81 percent specificity ¾ the ability to correctly identify ...