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VIDEO: Dr. Sorof – How Can Scar Tissue Affect A Woman’s Heart?

Dr. Sorof shares how a woman’s heart can be affected by scar tissue.

Dr. Sorof:
Scar tissue is of concern in the heart because it’s formed mostly by a lack of oxygen that produces dead tissue or a scar, such as a scar you would get on your body. It also could be a nidus or a site that bad rhythms can start. People often, who have a weak heart muscle or have had heart attacks, have areas of the heart that are not functioning well and from those areas electricity can be exerted and cause somebody to go into a lethal or problematic arrhythmia.

If somebody has had heart attacks and they have low heart pumping function they definitely need to see a cardiologist and have follow up because those patients should be on medicines and also they may need something called a defibrillator which could help their heart stay in rhythm and that can save somebody’s life.

About Dr. Sorof, M.D.:
Dr. Suzanne Sorof, M.D., is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiology and Internal Medicine. She earned her medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She also completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals Residency Program. Dr. Sorof completed her cardiology fellowship at MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She then completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Sorof has extensive training and experience in all aspects of clinical cardiology as well as cardiac and peripheral intervention.

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