Optimizing Your Heart Health

Nurse Taking A Mans Blood Pressure

Your heart is the muscle responsible for continuously pumping blood and the vital nutrients it carries throughout the body. Problems with your heart function can seriously limit your ability to participate in everyday activities such as exercise and quality time with family, and may even become extremely dangerous if left untreated. It is imperative to seek the help of a cardiac specialist who can give your heart the individualized care that it needs.

Heart Conditions

It’s true that heart disease affects millions of people each year, but there are other heart problems that need to be recognized and cared for with proper treatment. For example, heart rhythm disorders can cause your heart to beat incorrectly, interrupting blood flow and causing many problematic symptoms as a result. These types of conditions can be treated by a cardiac specialist, but getting that kind of treatment requires you to take the first step of seeking out a doctor that can offer you the quality care you need to live a heart healthy life.

Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common heart disorders that often goes untreated. A healthy heart beats in a coordinated pattern of contractions that move blood efficiently from chamber to chamber of the heart and back out into the body. In a patient with atrial fibrillation, the contractions are irregular and can cause the blood to pool. Overtime, this can lead to the formation of blood clots which risk entering the lungs or the brain. When this happens, patients may experience a stroke or a pulmonary embolism, both of which are serious medical emergencies that could have been avoided if the irregular heart rhythm had been properly treated.

Expert Heart Care

If you have or believe you may have a heart rhythm disorder, contact Dr. Dilip Mathew. Dr. Mathew is a cardiac specialist located in Sarasota, FL with years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions like atrial fibrillation. If it is determined that you have atrial fibrillation, there are many treatment options available to get the condition under control so you can lead a healthy and happy life.

About Heart Rhythm Consultants, P.A.

The experienced electrophysiologists of Heart Rhythm Consultants, P.A. have been serving West Florida including Sarasota, Venice, Tampa, and Sun City Center for over 15 years. Our specialty cardiologists, or EP doctors, help patients manage their abnormal heart rhythm conditions, whether they suffer from arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation (AFib), or other irregular heartbeats. Dr. Dilip J. Mathew and Dr. Rajesh Malik perform arrhythmia treatments like cardiac ablation, cryoablation, and implanting pacemakers or defibrillators. Dr. Mathew has performed nearly 5,000 complex cardiac ablations. View our office locations in Sarasota and Venice, Florida.