Heart arrhythmia
Diagnosing and treating irregular heartbeats across Florida
You hear good news, and your heart flutters in response. But when does a more frequent flutter become a sign of something serious?
An irregular heartbeat, or heart arrhythmia, is an often uncomfortable sensation or painful event. It can raise many immediate fears and questions, but we are here to help. Our heart doctors and cardiac specialists across the state are highly trained to diagnose and treat irregular heart rhythms.
Is your heart healthy
Understanding your heart health is critical to getting the care you need. We offer a health risk assessment to help get you started.
Understanding your heart health is critical to getting the care you need. We offer a health risk assessment to help get you started.
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Heart arrhythmias we treat
There are many types of irregular heartbeats, including:
- Atrial fibrillation (AFib)
- Atrial flutter
- Atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia (AVNRT)
- Inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST)
- Sinus arrhythmia
- Sinus tachycardia
- Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Ventricular tachycardia (VT)
Understanding irregular heartbeats
The heart's electrical system is impacted by a wide range of conditions (e.g., sick sinus syndrome or Wolff Parkinson-White syndrome) as well as lifestyle choices. Sometimes, these things can cause the heart to beat irregularly. When this happens, it is known as an arrhythmia.
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Symptoms of heart arrhythmias
In many cases, if an arrhythmia is left untreated, it can lead to stroke or heart failure. This is one of the reasons why it's important you know the signs of an arrhythmia, which include:
- Dizziness
- Fainting
- Fatigue
- Minor chest pain (angina)
- Sensations of your heart fluttering
- Sensations of a missed or extra heartbeat
- Shortness of breath
- Weakness
Our heart arrhythmia services
We provide specialized diagnostics and treatments to help restore irregular heartbeats to normal, healthy rhythms.
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Risk factors of AFib
Unfortunately, you may or may not experience symptoms if you have AFib. Regular checkups with your doctor or annual visits to a cardiologist, if you have AFib risk factors, can help diagnose and treat this condition quickly. Risk factors of having AFib include:
- Advancing age
- Being a smoker
- Being under constant or overwhelming stress in your day-to-day life
- Having a family history of heart disease
- Having been diagnosed with:
- A congenital heart disorder
- Coronary artery disease
- Diabetes
- Having had a previous heart attack
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Surgical intervention
Should you need it, we provide many different heart surgeries to treat arrhythmias by regulating the heartbeat. This includes both traditional and minimally invasive procedures, such as:
- Automated external defibrillator insertion
- Convergent maze procedures
- Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) device insertion
- Pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) insertion and repair
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) (bi-ventricular device insertion)
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