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Conduction Disorders - Treatment - Treatment

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If you are diagnosed with a conduction disorder, your doctor may recommend lifestyle changes, medicines, surgery, or another procedure to treat your condition. Conduction disorders can be a medical emergency that requires immediate treatment in a hospital emergency department.

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\n Healthy lifestyle changes \n
- Conduction Disorders - Treatment

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Different conduction disorders have different triggers. Depending on your disorder, your doctor may ask you to do one or more of the following.

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  • Avoid medicines that may trigger your conduction disorder or make it worse.
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  • Limit exposure to sudden noises, such as in your occupation.
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  • Limit physical activity or use precautions if exercise puts you at higher risk of dangerous heart rhythms. For example, swimming may be risky for people who have catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.
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  • Make heart-healthy lifestyle changes, including heart-healthy eating, managing stress, and limiting alcohol.
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\n Medicines \n
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Your doctor may recommend one or more of the following types of medicines to treat your conduction disorder:

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  • Atropine to increase heart rate in severe types of AV block.
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  • Beta blockers to decrease the activity of the stress hormones and make your heart beat more slowly. Examples of beta blockers include nadolol, propranolol, and metoprolol.
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  • Other medicines, such as antiarrhythmics, may be used to treat certain types of arrhythmias.
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Your doctor may recommend one of the following procedures to treat a conduction disorder or implant a medical device.

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  • Pacemakers to help your heart beat at a normal rate. Several conduction disorders, including SSS and more severe types of AV block, are treated with a pacemaker. Pacemakers may prevent fainting and improve survival. With research, new, more effective pacemaker technologies are emerging. Complications from pacemakers may include infection, bleeding, and damage to the heart or heart valves.
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  • Radiofrequency catheter ablation to help prevent abnormal electrical activity. This type of catheter ablation uses radiofrequency energy to destroy a small section of heart tissue that is causing the abnormal electrical activity or arrhythmia.
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  • Other procedures, such as placing an ICD\u2014a type of defibrillator\u2014or wearing away or removing nerves that are overstimulating the heart, called left cardiac sympathetic denervation, may be used to treat arrhythmias. Read more about these procedures in Living With.
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- Conduction Disorders - Treatment

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  • Research for Your Health will explain how we are using current research and advancing research to treat people who have conduction disorders.
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  • Participate in NHLBI Clinical Trials will discuss our ongoing clinical studies that are investigating treatments for conduction disorders.
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  • Living With will discuss what your doctor may recommend, including lifelong lifestyle changes and medical care to prevent your condition from recurring, getting worse, or causing complications.
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Source Agency: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Captured Date: 2019-08-08 15:03:00.0
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