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VELLORE: : The Christian Medical College Hospital here and the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on conducting collaborative research in arrhythmic disorders of the heart. Speaking to presspersons here on Thursday, George M. Chandy, Director of the CMC Hospital, and Sunil Chandy, Head of the Department of Cardiology, Unit-1, and Deputy Medical Superintendent of the hospital, said Prashantham Sanders, Professor of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, initiated the research during his visit here in March. He initiated certain novel therapeutic and diagnostic techniques in atrial fibrillation — a condition in which the upper chambers beat randomly at rates as high as 400 times a minute. This may lead to strokes and other heart complications. Two novel procedures were done at the Department of Cardiology during the visit of Dr. Sanders to reinforce the programme in electro-physiology. One was intra-cardiac echocardiography, a technique by which a specialised ultrasound catheter is inserted into the heart to image the chamber at close range. This was used in the cases done recently. In addition, Dr.Sanders performed a successful radio-frequency ablation for atrial fibrillation by selectively isolating veins and ablating them serially. This patient is now in normal rhythm and symptomatically better. "Both these interventions are examples of cutting edge technology," they said. Bobby John, Reader in Cardiology, CMC, said there were hundreds of abnormal rhythms. This technology helped in the evaluation of different types of rhythms. Dr. Sanders said electro-physiology was now an established technology for treatment of atrial fibrillation throughout the world.
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