The MUSC Children’s Heart Center has a long history of providing pioneering catheter ablation services to patients throughout the United States and the world. Dr. J. Philip Saul, Director of both the Children’s Heart Program and the Arrhythmia Management Program since 1997, performed the first radiofrequency catheter ablation for a child with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) in 1990 while at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. He has since pioneered a number of other procedures in the United States, including the first use of cryo-ablation therapy to treat an arrhythmia in a child. Dr. Saul has been involved with more than 2000 ablation procedures, with over 1000 taking place since his arrival at MUSC. Overall success rates have been 98%, with nearly 100% success for WPW and most supraventricular tachycardias. The program currently offers: | |
Dr. Thomas Paul