Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

New procedure repairs heart without opening chest

Published in Medical Imaging Business Week, July 29th, 2004

Thoracic surgeon Daniel Bethencourt, MD, one of the few cardiac surgeons to cure atrial fibrillation (rapid, irregular heartbeat) without opening the patient's chest, performed endoscopic microwave ablation to treat atrial fibrillation in a 59-year-old man at Long Beach Memorial.

Patient Joel Ellis, Laguna Beach, experiences irregular heartbeats 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. He is among the 2 million Americans suffering from the most common cardiac arrhythmia known as atrial fibrillation. Until recently, the only treatments for atrial fibrillation have been restoration of the heart's normal rhythm by medicine or electrical treatments, which can control but not...

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Source: Medical Imaging Business Week (2004-07-29)

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