Conditions and Treatments

An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. During an arrhythmia, the heart can beat too fast, too slowly, or with an irregular rhythm. When a heart beats too fast, the condition is called tachycardia. When a heart beats too slowly, the condition is called bradycardia.

An arteriovenous (AV) fistula is an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein. 

Arthritis is a term used to describe more than 100 medical conditions known as rheumatic diseases. Medically, arthritis means joint inflammation, but it also can affect tendons, ligaments, bones and muscles—the body’s connecting or supporting structures. Some forms of arthritis even affect certain organs.

Ascending aortic repair or replacement is surgery to treat an enlargement or ballooning (aortic aneurysm) of the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the vital organs (aorta).

Asthma is a chronic, or long-term, condition that intermittently inflames and narrows the airways in the lungs. The inflammation makes the airways swell. Asthma causes periods of wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing.

Atherosclerosis is a disease in which plaque builds up inside your arteries. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to your heart and other parts of your body.

Atrial fibrillation (also known as AF or AFib) is a type of cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat). With atrial fibrillation, the electrical signals in the atria (the two small chambers of the heart) are fired in a very fast and uncontrolled manner. The atria quiver instead of contract. The electrical signals then arrive in the ventricles in an irregular fashion.

Avascular necrosis (AVN)—also called osteonecrosis or ischemic bone necrosis—is a disease in which bone tissue dies when the blood supply to the bone is cut off. Bone is living tissue that requires blood, so an interruption in the blood supply causes the bone to die.

Back and neck pain can range from a mildly annoying dull ache to severe, disabling pain that restricts movement and interferes with your ability to function normally. 

Benign (non-cancerous) bone tumors are lesions within the skeleton that can develop almost anywhere, in almost anyone. The appropriate treatment for a benign tumor depends on many different factors. We understand that being told you have a tumor can be unsettling, even if that tumor is not cancerous.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is an enlarged prostate not caused by cancer. The condition, which affects the flow of urine, is common among older men.

Biceps tenodesis surgery is a procedure to repair the biceps tendon, a long cord-like structure that attaches the biceps muscle of your upper arm to the elbow at one end and the shoulder at the other.