2023-05-14 13:07:00
Radiofrequency Ablation without the use of fluoroscopy (use of X-rays) is a recent, high-tech technique that is performed in few health centers in our country.
A few days ago, at the Clinic, Dr. Mariana Valentino, an electrophysiologist, belonging to the staff of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, successfully performed the second Radiofrequency Ablation without radiation on a pregnant patient at 31 weeks gestation.
Radiofrequency Ablation without the use of fluoroscopy (use of X-rays) is a recent high-tech technique that is performed in few health centers in our country and is a very important achievement that can be performed in the region.
Radiofrequency Ablation is a procedure in which small interventions are performed on the heart to cut electrical circuits that produce heart rhythm disturbances called cardiac arrhythmias. It is performed with the insertion of a catheter into a vein or artery, generally in the leg, and ascends to the heart guided by fluoroscopy. Once the electrical circuit causing the patient’s arrhythmia is located, radiofrequency is applied from an external generator.
Both the patient and the entire work team (doctor, electrophysiologist, technicians and nurses) are exposed to radiation. Professionals must wear heavy lead suits to protect themselves from it, but patients are exposed.
Pregnant patients cannot receive X-rays, so they were excluded from this type of therapy, but thanks to the experience of the electrophysiology team led by Dr. Mariana Valentino and the latest generation equipment with an Electroanatomical Mapping System (3D) it was possible to reconstruct the anatomy of the heart in real time and the spatial location of the circuit that caused the arrhythmia in the patient.
It is considered an extremely relevant event for cardiology in the region and more precisely in the field of cardiac electrophysiology, a specialty that treats cardiac arrhythmias in a minimally invasive way. “In the future, it is a zero radiation project that hopefully can be provided to all patients,” said Dr. Valentino.
Carrying out this procedure requires an excellent level of training in the use of the most advanced technology and that is why, at the Clinic, we are proud that this intervention might be performed in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, which has a room with high-tech equipment for Hemodynamics and Electrophysiology interventions, which always seeks medical excellence and the best treatment for its patients, highlighting in this case, in addition, the care provided to pregnant women who, for different reasons They are going through a high-risk pregnancy.
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