A 75-year-old woman with situs inversus totalis, dextrocardia, a patent foramen ovale (PFO), and a double-chamber right ventricle with subpulmonic outflow obstruction presented with highly symptomatic ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive disease characterized by vascular proliferation and remodeling in the pulmonary vasculature. In recent years, various treatments have been introduced that ...

Heart ablation is a procedure that treats arrhythmias, such as SVT, by destroying small areas of heart tissue that cause irregular heartbeats, using either heat or cold delivered via catheters. The ...

...little data exist on the use of catheter ablation for AVNRT in elderly patients... Cardiovascular interventional therapies are often withheld from elderly patients, owing to a perceived increase in ...

Ventricular tachycardia arises from an abnormal electrical focus or circuit in the myocardium of the ventricle and is usually manifested as a tachyarrhythmia with a wide QRS complex on ...

Catheter ablation was not the first-line treatment for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) for most patients referred to a tertiary center, a study shows, with investigators suggesting the procedure is ...

There's a common heart condition that many patients don't know they have until they end up in the emergency room. It happened to our very own Stephanie Bennett last year when she was diagnosed with ...

Cardiac ablation is a procedure that can help correct arrhythmia, which is a problem with the rhythm of a person’s heartbeat. The procedure eliminates or scars the tissue in the heart that causes ...

A 75-year-old woman with dextrocardia, situs inversus, and subpulmonic outflow obstruction presented with recurrent supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). This SVT was easily inducible during ...