Every so often, you might notice your heart beating faster or for some people it might feel

like fluttering in your chest from time to time and you might wonder what's going on.

A heart arrhythmia happens when the electrical signals that tell the heart to beat don't work properly.

If the heart beats too fast, that's called ventricular tachycardia,

also known as VT, or VT, and it can be life-threatening. But what if a cutting-edge, non-invasive

therapy, often used for cancer treatment, could provide a new solution for patients with VT?

We have a great lineup of guests today. I'm so excited. Dr. Konstantinos Scientist is a board

certified cardiologist with a specialty in cardiac electrophysiology. He's also an associate

professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic. So imagine the model where you can radiate BT instead of having

to ablate it globally that could have much more impact,

even in places that don't have access to catheter ablation.

Also with us from Mayo Clinic is Dr. Amanda Deischer. She's a radiation oncology medical physicist.

She's also an assistant professor of medical physics and a researcher at Mayo Clinic's

Comprehensive Cancer

Center. The interesting thing is that for most of radiation oncology, we avoid the heart.

It's an organ at risk. So if we're treating someone's lung, we try to minimize the dose to the heart

or for treating breast tissue. We try to find beams that minimize dose to the heart.

So it's a new concept for us to be intentionally putting dose into the heart

because that's where the issue is. We are honored that Dr. William Stevenson is with us.

He is also a cardiac electrophysiologist, or EP, as well as a professor of medicine,

and director of the cardiac arrhythmia clinical research program

at Vanderbilt Heart and Bascular Institute.

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