What is ablation therapy?
Ablation therapy is a procedure used to remove, reduce, destruction or prevent body tissue function for the purpose of treating certain conditions. This type of procedure is used to treat heart arrhythmias, health, which affects the lining of the uterus and even some types of cancer. Ablation therapy can be performed surgically or underestimated.
When a person has an unusual heart rhythm, it is said to have arrhythmia. One type of surgical ablation used to treat arrhythmias is the open heart procedure. When done, the surgeon is shortened into the heart of the patient by small cuts. This disrupts the abnormal electrical impulses that prevent the heart of beating as it should. The scars tissue is formed when the cuts heal and create permanent roadblocks for abnormal impulses. To perform this type of procedure, the doctor inserts a thin tube called the catheter into the heart of his patient. Once it is in place, it uses the machine to send energy to the heart. The energy from the machine is used to destroy the tissue that interferes with the normLine heart rhythms.
Sometimes ablation therapy is used to treat problems that a woman with reproductive organs has. For example, this treatment can be used to destroy the uterus lining if a woman fights excessive menstrual bleeding. To perform this procedure, a doctor uses a special tool called hysteroscope, a small telescope -like device to see the uterine lining of his patient. It then uses laser or radiofrequency energy transmitted by the catheter to destroy the uterus lining.
In some cases, frost temperatures may be used for ablation therapy. When the doctor performs cryoablation therapy, she puts a fine probe into the uterus and cools her tip into the temperature below -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 degrees Celsius). The uterine lining tissue is destroyed when the probe touches.
Ablation therapy can even be used as a minimally invasive treatment of liver cancer. To remove jaTerm tumors by radiofrequency ablation may be placed by the doctor's electrode into the body of its patient where the tumor is located. It then sends electric currents to a tumor that heats it and kills cancer cells. Healthy liver tissue is able to withstand heat, so the procedure only destroys a tumor and a small number of normal cells that surround it.