A limited domain study indicates that radiotherapy may be safer than surgical intervention and almost similar, in the treatment of a repeated heart rhythm known as the ventricular heart.
People with ventricular heart need medications with high doses with severe side effects in addition to their need for fibrillation devices that are planted inside the body and are issued strong and painful electrical shocks when necessary.
And when the medications do not benefit, patients are subject to an interventional catheter, a process that requires anesthesia and inserting a tube into the heart to destroy the tissues responsible for the defect.
The use of frequent interventional catheter can occur to treat heart risk disorder.
When compared to 22 patients suffering from the frequent ventricular hearts who received ancient radiation treatment and 21 they have repeatedly underwent the interventional catheter process, the researchers found that 4 patients in the catheter group died within a month, all of them as a result of complications related to the treatment method.
Follow -up that spanned 3 years
The researchers stated during the meeting of the American Society for Radiology oncology that no deaths were recorded among patients who received radiotherapy, during a 3 -year follow -up period.
After a year, the hospitalization rate due to the side effects associated with the treatment method reached 38% in patients who underwent the interventional catheterization process, compared to only 9% among those who received radiotherapy.
Both methods were almost the same degree of effectiveness, as the average period was until a new seizure of ventricular fibrillation or a shock from the defibrilla deodorant device was 8.2 months in the radiotherapy group and 9.7 months in the interventional catheterization group.
Complications occurred 6 days after the catheterization process for 10 months after radiotherapy.
The survival rates after 73% in patients who received radiotherapy, compared to 58% in those who underwent the catheter. After 3 years, the percentage is equal in both groups at 45%.
The researchers believe that patients who have received radiotherapy lived for a longer period of time because they avoided anesthesia and early complications that follow the catheter process.
Given the current limitation of the study, the results of an ongoing experience compare between the two rivers will be important to confirm the findings of the study.