If ventricular tachycardia (VT) affects your quality of life, you may need specialized treatment.
The doctors at Emory Heart & Vascular offer the latest minimally invasive and surgical treatment options to cure ventricular tachycardia or reduce its symptoms.
Experts with our VT Ablation Center offer advanced catheter-based ablations and surgical ablation treatments.
Emory Healthcare electrophysiologists perform complex ablation to treat many forms of ventricular tachycardia. During this procedure, doctors use imaging tools to guide a thin, flexible tube (catheter) through your blood vessels to your heart. Then, they feed special tools through the catheter to heat or freeze the area of the heart causing ventricular tachycardia.
VT ablation takes a few hours to complete. Your doctor may recommend you go home the same day or spend one night in the hospital.
During surgical ablation for VT, electrophysiologists partner with surgeons to access areas of the heart they can’t reach with a catheter ablation procedure.
Your team will use imaging tools to map your heart and plan your surgery. You can expect to stay in the hospital for a few days following surgical ablation for VT.
Our team works with radiation oncologists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University to deliver radiation therapy for ventricular tachycardia.
This treatment, traditionally used to target cancer cells, is a good ventricular tachycardia treatment option when VT ablation has failed.
Radiation therapy delivers small doses of radiation to the area of the heart affected by ventricular tachycardia.
Radiation therapy is an outpatient procedure. This means you come to the clinic for treatment and return home after.
Ventricular tachycardia—also called VT or V-tach—is a type of abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia).
Emory Healthcare doctors provide specialized treatment and research the latest advancements.
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