Study: Radiation is safer than catheter to treat severe heart rhythm deviation

A limited scale study showed that radiotherapy could be safer than surgical intervention, and almost liked it in the treatment of repeating a severe heart rhythm, known as ‘ventricular heart’. People with ventricular heart need medicines in high doses, with serious side effects, in addition to their need for fibrillation devices, grown in the body, and strong electric shocks are exported and painful if necessary. And when the medication is not beneficial, patients are subject to intervention eater, a process that needs anesthesia, and to enter a tube to destroy the tissues responsible for the defect. Treatment of heart rhythm deviation and the use of regular intervention catheter can prevent treating heart risk disorder. After comparing 22 patients suffering from a regular ventricular heart, receiving ancient radiation treatment, and 21 they underwent the intervention catheterization process, the researchers found that four patients in the catheter group died within a month, all due to complications associated with the treatment method. Radiotherapy, and the researchers, said at the meeting of the American Society for Radiology that no deaths were recorded among patients who received radiotherapy during a three -year follow -up period. After a year passed, the hospitalization rate due to the side effects associated with the treatment method reached 38% in patients undergoing the intervention catheterization process compared to only 9% among those who received radiotherapy. Both methods were almost the same degree of effectiveness, as the average period until a new seizure occurred on ventricular fibrillation, or a shock of the fibrillation dodorant equipment is 8.2 months in the radiotherapy group, and 9.7 months in the interventional catheterization group. Complications took place six days after the catheterization process for ten months after radiotherapy. Survival and survival rates to 73% in patients who received radiotherapy compared to 58% with those who underwent the catheter. Three years later, the percentage is equal in the two groups at 45%. The researchers believed that patients who received radiotherapy probably lived for a longer period; Because they avoid anesthesia, the early complications that follow are the catheter process. Given the current limited study, the results of a continuous experiment, which compares the ritual, will be important to confirm the findings of the study.