Supraventricular Tachycardia, What Causes This? - Dr. Su (VIDEO)
Dr. Su explains the causes of supraventricular tachycardia/SVT.
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Dr. Su:
There are AV re-entrant tachycardia, often caused by abnormal pathway or abnormal connection between top and bottom chamber of the heart. So there are many, many different abnormal rhythms, and even just very irregular rhythm called atrial fibrillation, which is used to be considered was a chaotic rhythm but that is actually becoming curable nowadays too.
Dr. Su, M.D., F.A.C.C.:
Dr. Wilber Su is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Cardiac Electrophysiology, and is on staff at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, Maricopa County Medical Center, St. Luke’s Medical Center, and Banner Desert Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He received his undergraduate degree with honors in biomedical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and attended medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He also trained at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. He is involved in ongoing studies on national trials to improve complex arrhythmia treatments and mentors electrophysiologists across the country on complex ablations and cardiac device implantation techniques. Dr. Su specializes in atrial fibrillation ablation, arrhythmia ablations, Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICD) among other heart conditions and procedures.
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