{"id":18083,"date":"2023-09-21T19:15:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/emilys-heart-story\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:02:35","slug":"emilys-heart-story","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/emilys-heart-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Un procedimiento transformador trata las paradas cardiacas en una paciente joven \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debido a este preocupante fen\u00f3meno, se puso en contacto con un equipo de especialistas para recibir tratamiento y controlar los s\u00edntomas, que se prolongaron durante su vida adulta. No saber cu\u00e1ndo se producir\u00edan los desmayos dificultaba la vida normal de Emily. No pod\u00eda conducir ni participar en muchas actividades habituales porque ser\u00edan peligrosas si perd\u00eda el conocimiento. \"No ten\u00eda muchas esperanzas de que hubiera alguna forma de tratar mi enfermedad\", afirma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tras controlar su enfermedad durante a\u00f1os, no obtuvo un diagn\u00f3stico concreto hasta que vivi\u00f3 en Somerville (Massachusetts) y trabaj\u00f3 con especialistas de la zona de Boston. Se confirm\u00f3 que la breve p\u00e9rdida de conciencia de Emily era el resultado de una enfermedad cardiaca cr\u00f3nica grave conocida como <a href=\"https:\/\/library.southcoast.org\/Search\/134,592\">S\u00edncope vasovagal maligno<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuando su estado se agrav\u00f3, un <a href=\"https:\/\/library.southcoast.org\/Search\/92,P07976\">Monitor Holter<\/a> revel\u00f3 que sufri\u00f3 un episodio en el que su coraz\u00f3n se par\u00f3 entre 18 y 20 segundos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El s\u00edncope vasovagal maligno puede producirse cuando la parte del sistema nervioso que regula la frecuencia cardiaca y la tensi\u00f3n arterial funciona mal. Si no se trata, puede causar problemas graves e incluso la muerte. A menudo, los cirujanos cardiacos implantan un marcapasos para regular el ritmo cardiaco de los pacientes con s\u00edncope vasovagal, pero muchos prefieren no elegir esa opci\u00f3n de tratamiento en pacientes tan j\u00f3venes como Emily, que ahora tiene 28 a\u00f1os, si existen otras opciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analizando las opciones, el cardi\u00f3logo de Emily en Boston ley\u00f3 sobre el trabajo del electrofisi\u00f3logo cardiaco de Southcoast Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/nitesh-sood-md\/\">Dr. Nitesh Sood<\/a>Director de <a href=\"https:\/\/heart.southcoast.org\/treatment-and-services\/cardiac-electrophysiology\/\">Programa de bienestar para la fibrilaci\u00f3n auricular de Southcoast Health<\/a> en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/locations\/charlton-memorial-hospital\/\">Hospital Charlton Memorial<\/a> en Fall River.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Dr. Sood realiz\u00f3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/moreheart\/\">uno de los primeros procedimientos de ablaci\u00f3n cardioneural<\/a> en Estados Unidos en 2022 utilizando la ablaci\u00f3n por cat\u00e9ter con radiofrecuencia para modificar las se\u00f1ales el\u00e9ctricas del coraz\u00f3n. Al tratar a una paciente con un trastorno similar al de Emily, el Dr. Sood consult\u00f3 con el cardi\u00f3logo turco que hab\u00eda utilizado por primera vez el procedimiento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"18 segundos es casi tres veces m\u00e1s que las pausas card\u00edacas t\u00edpicas que pueden experimentar muchos pacientes con S\u00edncope Vasovagal Maligno\", afirma el Dr. Sood. \"Una ablaci\u00f3n cardioneural exitosa puede tratar esta afecci\u00f3n y evitar que se produzcan estos episodios\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Para una paciente de la edad de Emily, es una gran opci\u00f3n para proporcionar una soluci\u00f3n permanente a esta afecci\u00f3n. En cambio, un marcapasos ser\u00eda un recordatorio constante de que algo va mal, adem\u00e1s de requerir un mantenimiento durante toda su vida.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Dr. Sood pudo tratar a Emily realizando la ablaci\u00f3n mediante un cat\u00e9ter, lo que le permiti\u00f3 evitar una larga estancia hospitalaria o complicaciones quir\u00fargicas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Al principio estaba nerviosa porque nunca me hab\u00eda sometido a ninguna intervenci\u00f3n quir\u00fargica, pero todo fue muy f\u00e1cil\", dijo Emily. \"Todo el equipo me apoy\u00f3 mucho, me tranquiliz\u00f3 y me mantuvo bien informada todo el tiempo\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El equipo de atenci\u00f3n de Emily en Southcoast Health ha estado siguiendo cuidadosamente su ritmo card\u00edaco desde abril de 2023, cuando se realiz\u00f3 el procedimiento. Esto se ha hecho con un peque\u00f1o dispositivo implantable que rastrea cada latido de su coraz\u00f3n llamado grabador de bucle implantable.  Desde entonces, su coraz\u00f3n no se ha detenido ni un solo segundo.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Esto me ha cambiado la vida por completo\", afirma Emily. \"Antes de la intervenci\u00f3n, estaba estudiando un posgrado para ser trabajadora social cl\u00ednica y siempre quise trabajar a tiempo completo, pero mi familia y yo no sab\u00edamos si eso ser\u00eda alguna vez una posibilidad. Ahora es emocionante poder establecer planes claros y llevar una vida normal.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre Southcoast Health Heart &amp; Vascular en Charlton Memorial&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4559,"template":"","categories":[1231],"class_list":["post-18083","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Transformational Procedure Treats Heart Pauses in a Young Patient \u00a0 - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When her condition became the most severe, a Holter monitor revealed she suffered an episode with her heart stopping for 18 to 20 seconds.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/emilys-heart-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transformational Procedure Treats Heart Pauses in a Young Patient \u00a0 - 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