Pediatric Electrophysiology

Unveiling Pediatric Rhythm Challenges

Pediatric Rhythm Challenges

Treatment Triumphs

Forging Paths of Rhythm Restoration

• Catheter Ablation: Minimally invasive procedures that use radiofrequency energy, cryotherapy, or laser ablation to target and eliminate abnormal electrical pathways, focal arrhythmogenic sources, or accessory conduction pathways in the heart. Catheter ablation achieves rhythm control, symptom relief, and improved quality of life in children with supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), atrial flutter, or accessory pathway-mediated tachycardias, reducing the need for long-term antiarrhythmic medications, hospitalizations, or adverse cardiac events.
• Device Therapy: Implantable devices such as pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), or cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices that monitor cardiac rhythm, deliver pacing stimuli, or provide defibrillation shocks to terminate life-threatening arrhythmias in pediatric patients. Device therapy restores physiological heart rate and rhythm, prevents sudden cardiac death, and improves cardiac function and exercise tolerance in children with bradyarrhythmias, heart block, or high-risk ventricular arrhythmias, allowing them to lead active and fulfilling lives.
• Hybrid Procedures: Combined surgical and catheter-based interventions performed in hybrid operating rooms or electrophysiology laboratories to address complex arrhythmias or structural heart disease in pediatric patients. Hybrid procedures offer complementary benefits of both approaches, allowing for epicardial access, endocardial mapping, intracardiac echocardiography, and real-time navigation in challenging cases requiring concurrent ablation, valve repair, or epicardial lead placement for optimal rhythm control and substrate modification in children with congenital heart defects or complex arrhythmia substrates.
• Genetic Counseling and Family Screening: Provides genetic evaluation, risk assessment, and counseling services for pediatric patients and their families affected by inherited arrhythmia syndromes or cardiomyopathies. Genetic counseling facilitates informed decision-making, cascade screening, and family-based management strategies to identify at-risk individuals, prevent disease transmission, and optimize clinical outcomes in families with hereditary arrhythmia disorders or familial cardiomyopathies, ensuring comprehensive care and support for children with inherited rhythm disturbances or structural heart disease.