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Heart rhythm abnormalities can be deadly. Normal heart rhythms can become disturbed when the energy fails to flow properly through the heart. This condition can sometimes be treated with medicine. When medicine fails, more advanced methods can be used, and you don’t have to travel out of the area to get treatment.
45 year old David Berkley was suffering from a condition called atrial fibrillation. It’s when your heart does not effectively pump, and it can lead to a stroke. David tried medicines, but they didn’t work. Dr. Hari Baddigam then performed a procedure called cardiac ablation at Bay Medical Center. In this procedure, a cathetar is inserted into the body, and doctors use a 3-D image to map the heart. This helps pinpoint the area causing the malfunction. Energy is then delivered to the site causing the problem.
Dr. Baddigam explains, “what it does is actually burns that area of the tissue and kills the tissue very precisely so that we can kill the nerves of the heart and areas of the heart so that we can achieve the goal.”
With David, that goal was achieved. He says he now feels great and can function normally.
Dr. Baddigam says they are waiting on FDA approval on a more advanced procedure for cardiac ablations that will reduce surgery time by an hour and a half to two hours. Instead of using radiofrequency, balloons with liquid nitrogen are used to perform the ablation. The approval for this is expected in September.
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