Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: SMVD Narayana Superspeciality Hospital treated a patient with palpitations through radiofrequency ablation. A 30 year old patient, housewife from Udhampur was suffering from severe palpitations, with heart rate reaching upto 250 beats per minute, on many occasions. She came to the Hospital for treatment in the month of October. In such cases the medicines help control the abnormal heart tissue that causes arrhythmias but the radiofrequency ablationdestroys the tissue. Palpitationis a sensation of heart skipping a beat or adding an extra beat. There can be quite a distressing experience and sometimes life threatening as well. They cause severe discomfort and sometimes collapse too. Symptoms can range from chest pain, pounding in chest and neck, dizziness, loss of consciousness, and shortness of breath. Palpitations are commonly due to electrical problems in the heart and these electrical problems sometimes respond well to medical treatment. Speaking about the case, Dr. Vivek Chaturvedisaid, "In the index case, the episodes would last for hours sometimes and make her very uncomfortable and dizzy. In certain situation she required emergency injections and sometimes even painful electric shock. After initial injections and shock therapy, we recommended her to go for Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) which is a permanent solution". The procedure which is similar to angiography involves insertion of electric sensing catheters in to the heart chambers under X ray guidance for the source of the electric problem to belocated. |
