Rhythm Disorders

Rhythm Disorders
There is no age group that is spared and rhythm disorders can affect unborn fetus to elderly in the 9th decade requiring care of electrophysiologist.
- The most common symptoms
  
  The most common symptoms are palpitations where heartbeat can be very fast or irregular. Abnormal heartbeats can also lead to feeling of missed beats. Patients can have episodes of blackout and fall sustaining injuries. Patient can develop shortness of breath or angina. Certain arrhythmias are life threatening and some can put patients at high risk of stroke.
Angina
Angina - A type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart. Arrhythmia Improper beating of the heart, whether irregular, too fast or too slow. The treatment for CAD depends on the severity of the condition. The stage will be also identified by the physician. If one notices any such symptoms, it’s time to connect with the medical experts. After the diagnosis the treatment can start. It will also depend whether the lifestyle medications can also help in this scenario or not besides medication.

First step is to diagnose the rhythm problem. There is a wide variety of rhythm problems, many of them which are benign and require treatment just to improve quality of life and others which put patients at high risk of Cerebro-vascular stroke and heart failure. The treatment has to be individualized and involves medicines, DC cardio version, RF ablation and implanting electronic devices.
RF ablation is treatment of choice in majority of arrhythmia since it is curative in majority and palliative in others by reducing the burden of arrhythmia. It also becomes treatment of choice because the drugs available to treat arrhythmia are not very effective and have lot of side effects. Radio waves are used to heat and destroy the tissue of heart that is causing rhythm problem. This energy is delivered through the catheter inserted via vein of lower limbs. With use of 3D mapping we can treat complex rhythm problems with possible outcomes.