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Claudia Huerta suffered from symptoms of atrial fibrillation, addressing them with lifestyle changes, until Cedars-Sinai experts discovered her diagnosis and offered a minimally invasive solution: catheter ablation.<\/p>\n
Like many people stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Huerta (44), a payroll manager from Maywood, California, started eating more. She started drinking more. She started moving less. She was stressed out, gaining weight and\u2014before she knew it\u2014experiencing heart palpitations and feeling breathless for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was tired all of the time,\u201d said Huerta. \u201cBut I assumed those symptoms were a result of my unhealthy lifestyle choices and increased stress.\u201d<\/p>\n
She began an exercise program at a neighborhood fitness studio, but her symptoms didn\u2019t improve. Eventually, the heart palpitations caused such severe shortness of breath and overwhelming fatigue that Huerta\u2019s primary care physician sent her to cardiologist Raj Khandwalla, MD<\/a>, director of Digital Therapeutics at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai.<\/p>\n {{providers}}<\/p>\n