Popular Locations
- Outpatient Surgery - Bridgeport Hospital
- Park Avenue Medical Center
- Primary Care Center - Bridgeport Hospital
Bridgeport Hospital heart rhythm specialists use the latest diagnostics, medications, devices and innovative approaches to care for patients with irregular heart rhythms, heart palpitations and slow and rapid heart rhythms.
Our cardiac electrophysiologists treat patients with all types of heart rhythm disorders, including:
Available treatments include:
In some cases, surgical treatment is required to treat abnormal heart rhythms or arrhythmias. The maze procedure is a surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation. The surgeon can use small incisions in the heart tissue and burn or freeze the area, thereby creating scar tissue that does not conduct the electrical activity causing the atrial fibrillation. The scar tissue directs electric signals through a controlled path, or maze, to the lower heart chambers (ventricles) and can maintain a normal heart rhythm. Similar surgery can also be performed to treat ventricular arrhythmias. In addition, our surgeons can implant cardiac devices, including pacemakers, for abnormally slow heart rhythms and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) for fast and life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias.