CANADIAN ADULT CONGENITAL HEART NETWORK


	The Beat Newsletter Archive 2009/2010 TCCCA update Winter 2009 Many things have happened at the Toronto Clinic over the last few months. We have said goodbye to some... + read more CCHA Updates Winter 2009 First ‘Beat Retreat’ camp a big success More than a dozen adult CHD patients – along with a cardiac care nurse... + read more Anxiety Winter 2009 The quiet agony of worry, so far, insidiously confined internally, first in tightness, in shallow breaths, in fearful ‘I wonder’,... + read more Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Genetics Winter 2009 Recently I attended the conference, “Diagnosis and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Prevention of Sudden Death: The Next 50 Years”,... + read more -------------------------------------------------- Sign-Up for Updates First Name Last Name Email Address Click here to unsubscribe			PRINT ARTICLE What’s New for the Adult Congenital Heart Clinic Season: Winter 2009 Submitted By: Cheryl Tarr, RN, BSN Nurse Clinician Calgary Adult Congenital Heart Clinic Many adult congenital heart patients, especially those with complex lesions have a very high rate of developing heart rhythm disorders in adulthood. It is important to have a specialist with in depth knowledge of both congenital heart disease and heart rhythm disorders to provide expert diagnosis and management. In the fall of 2008 the Calgary Adult Congenital Heart Clinic welcomed Dr. Robin Clegg. Dr. Clegg is a pediatric cardiologist who specializes in heart rhythm disorders in childhood as well as heart rhythm disorders in adults with congenital heart disease. She is now seeing patients from the Calgary Adult Congenital Heart Clinic in consult at the request of our clinic cardiologists and she is able to provide advice on medical management as well as offering radiofrequency ablation to treat some rhythm disorders. In October 2009 the Libin Institute of Calgary opened a new electrophysiology lab at the Foothills Medical Centre. The new lab will benefit from a significant technological upgrade for both diagnostic and treatment procedures. The new technology provided by this lab will result in improved success rates for radiofrequency ablation as well as a decrease in complications. In the coming months Dr. Clegg will be booking some of our adult congenital heart patients for ablation procedures right here in Calgary.