Introduction of New Surgical Procedures and 3-Dimensional High Tech Equipment for Arrhythmia – Embarkation of Arrhythmia Clinic

Gil hosptial : 3-Dimensional High Tech Equipment for ArrhythmiaHospital of Gachon University (Lee Myeong-cheol, the director of the hospital) introduced for the first time in Incheon area 3-dimensional imaging equipment effective for treating arrhythmia. Gil Hospital plans to vitalize arrhythmia clinic so that increasing senile arrhythmia patients can be treated readily.

On the 9th, Gil Hospital held a ceremony to celebrate the introduction of 3-dimensional high tech imaging system (Navix) in order to treat arrhythmia; executives and staffs of the hospital, including the president of Gachon Gil Foundation, Lee Gil-yeo, attended the ceremony held at the cardiac center. The 3-dimensional equipment thoroughly reconstitutes the heart during the arrhythmia surgery through radiofrequency catheter ablation. The medical team can perform effective procedures by accurately locating unhealthy heart muscle at the 3-dimensionally reconstituted heart.  

The radiofrequency catheter ablation that is used to treat arrhythmia is the procedure that uses high frequency heat energy to block parts of the routes for electrical transmission that causes arrhythmia. Atrial fibrillation, the most common type of arrhythmia, is the disease that the atrium does not contract evenly and instead trembles irregularly and weakly. It is often described as the condition that the heart’s weak tremble continues. Atrial fibrillation is caused by numerous reasons but it is closely related to aging, which accounts for the increase of senile patients in 60’s and 70’s these days.

If atrial fibrillation is not properly treated, the blood gets stagnated in the atrium, causing cerebral infarction, cardiac insufficiency, etc. In the past, there was a limit to finding a specific cause for atrial fibrillation and treating it. Instead the treatment focused more on preventing any complications that might develop due to atrial fibrillation. With the introduction of 3-dimensional imaging equipment, arrhythmia including atrial fibrillation is being aggressively treated and the outcome is satisfactory.

Gil Hospital has been implementing procedures for arrhythmia since 1993, and is planning to vitalize arrhythmia clinic with the introduction of 3-dimsnional imaging equipment for the first time in Incheon.