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The heart is a pump that performs the vital job of circulating
blood throughout the body. One of the several abnormalities encountered in
the cardiac functioning is fast heart rhythms i.e. tachycardia.
Tachycardia could manifest through various mechanisms like re-entry,
abnormal automaticity and triggered activity. The treatment of this
condition is preceded and involves study of the normal conduction system
by recording of intracardiac signals, maneuvers to define & identify
precise tachycardia mechanisms. This then is followed by the initiation
and termination of tachycardia by programmed electrical stimulation.
In this talk I shall discuss about a procedure, radio-frequency ablation,
which has been used in treatment and successful management of fast heart
rhythms.
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