Just been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. They want to do a procedure to remove some cells.?
The official medical term is atrial tachycardia. Someone had to do this surgery? Any advice?
What they propose to do is called radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA). radiofrequency catheter ablation is a medical treatment that uses electrical energy to destroy - or cutting - in the heart tissue that cause rhythm disturbances. An overview: heart beating normally is triggered by electrical impulses produced by the SA node, a tissue in the heart wall. Some Sometimes, instead of the SA node, one or more points in the atrial wall produces rapid fire pulses to the heart to beat at high speed. In this case the overflow points SA node and work "illegally" to produce atrial tachycardia can cause congestive heart failure. This is what you have. What to do? Destroy points that cause AtrialTachycardia naughty, shooting electricity (as in Star Wars). This is what surgeons do to you by RFCA. Just before frequency catheter ablation radio procedure, patients often stop taking the medications used to try to control their condition. This is because to the day of the procedure, the electrophysiology (EP) doctor often has to turn an episode of the electrical disturbance in order to determine what type is and where it comes from. local anesthetic (or in some cases, general anesthesia) is used before catheter (long wires) are inserted in the groin and perhaps the neck. After removal of tissue tests are done to see if the electrical disturbance problems can be triggered again by the catheters. Is still present, the allocation process continues to find more abnormal tissue, which is in turn removed (ablation). This "mapping and ablation," continues until the electrical disturbance can not be activated by the catheters, which the catheters are removed from the body. The procedure usually takes 2-4 hours. For more details see: http://www.cry.org.uk/radio_frequency_catheter_ablation.htm
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