Dr. Eysenck has undergone advanced training in electrophysiology and complex devices at several major UK tertiary centres, including St George's University Hospital, Morriston Cardiac Centre, Royal Sussex County Hospital, and Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.
After a 15-month tenure as a locum Consultant Cardiac Electrophysiologist at King's College Hospital, he was appointed at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust to establish and lead the arrhythmia service. He also visits Royal Brompton Hospital, where he performs both simple and complex electrophysiology and device procedures.
General cardiology
Dr Eysenck offers a comprehensive assessment of patients with all common cardiac conditions. Patients may have symptoms like persistent chest pain/pressure, shortness of breath, palpitations (fluttering/racing heart), unexplained fatigue, and swelling in legs/ankles, alongside dizziness, nausea, sweating, and fainting, often indicating issues like coronary artery disease, heart failure, or arrhythmias, requiring prompt evaluation, especially if new, worsening, or accompanied by risk factors like high blood pressure or diabetes. Dr Eysenck can help.
Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a condition where your heart’s upper chambers (atrial) stop beating effectively and start to ‘quiver’, resulting in an irregular, often fast, and inefficient heart rhythm. This can cause multiple symptoms like palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, anxiety and dizziness. The irregular activity also increases risks of blood clots that can results in serious complications like stroke or heart failure.
Dr Eysenck specialises in restoring normal heart rhythm to patients with AF. He uses all the available techniques to achieve this and can discuss with you all the options. Restoring normal heart rhythm can significantly reduce or eliminate symptoms and improve quality of life.
Atrial flutter
Atrial flutter refers to an abnormal heart rhythm where the heart’s upper chambers beat too fast, in a rapid, organised, circular electrical pattern, often around 300 beats per minute, leading to a fast heartbeat, palpitations, dizziness, and shortness of breath. This condition is associated with an increased risk of stroke.
Dr Eysenck treats patients with atrial flutter by addressing their risk of stroke, controlling the heart rate, and restoring normal heart rhythm, often with a procedure called a cardiac ablation.
Coronary artery disease
Coronary artery disease happens when fatty material (plaque) builds up in your heart's arteries (atherosclerosis), narrowing them and reducing oxygen-rich blood flow to the heart muscle, which can cause chest pain (angina) or a heart attack if a clot blocks the artery completely.
Also called ischaemic heart disease, it's a common form of heart disease, often linked to lifestyle factors like smoking, high cholesterol and blood pressure, and can lead to heart failure.
Ectopic heartbeats
Ectopic beats are extra, early, or missed heartbeats caused by electrical signals starting outside the heart's normal pacemaker, leading to palpitations (fluttering, pounding, or a skipped beat sensation). They are very common, usually harmless, and often triggered by stress, caffeine, alcohol, lack of sleep, or hormonal changes, but sometimes medication. While often a normal variation, frequent ectopics might need investigation by a doctor, who can diagnose them with an ECG and potentially offer treatments like beta-blockers.
Dr Eysenck offer a comprehensive assessment of patients with ectopic heartbeats, and focuses his management on improving patients' symptoms and prognosis.
Implantable defibrillators
An implanted defibrillator (ICD) is a small, battery-powered device placed under the skin, usually in the chest, that continuously monitors heart rhythm and delivers electrical shocks to reset the heart during life-threatening fast rhythms (ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation), preventing sudden cardiac arrest.
Connected by wires to the heart, it acts like a pacemaker for slow rhythms but also provides life-saving defibrillation for dangerous arrhythmias, protecting people at high risk of sudden cardiac death.
Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a type of fast heart rhythm where the heartbeat quickly, often between 140 to 200 beats per minute. This can cause very unpleasant symptoms like palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, chest pain, and patients frequently need hospital treatment to restore the normal heart rhythm. Dr Eysenck specialises in treating SVT with medication to control the symptoms and through an invasive electrophysiology procedure to diagnose and cure the conditions with a procedure called a cardiac ablation.