Specialty: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
Phyllis
A high-speed heart rate can’t slow Phyllis down.
Seventy-year-old Phyllis Steel is one of the most athletic retirees you’ll ever meet. Skiing moguls, playing tennis, she does it all. But her favorite time of each day is the 45 minutes she carves out to swim.
I love swimming. It’s my meditation.
But something threatened her athletic lifestyle when she developed an irregular beat in the upper chambers of her heart.
I would wake up in the middle of the night with a racing pulse. It’s unsettling.
Recognizing that these ailments had to be fixed, she sought out prominent electrophysiology specialist Dr. Luigi Di Biase at Montefiore Einstein.
As soon as I met him, I felt his confidence. I never panicked when I was around him.
Ablation is basically: you go in the heart and eliminate the electrical signal that is responsible for that arrhythmia.
I remember being wheeled in and there were, like, five or six computers.
It looks like we are playing a video game like Pac-Man.
Today, Phyllis is doing great and back in the pool. She’s even planning a special trip with her four grandchildren now that “Oma” is back on her feet.
I had so much confidence in Dr. Di Biase, I was never scared. He gave me a gift of life back all over again.
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