Chelsea Green undergoes ‘heart procedure’ for SVT

An ankle injury has kept Chelsea Green out of action for months. But now she’s dealing with a much more serious medical issue.

Green made a post on Instagram noting that she had undergone a “procedure” on her heart, and she was ready to start healing. 

The post showed Green smiling in her hospital bed, alongside her husband Matt Cardona. “After 10 years, doctors finally caught my SVT and I was able to get a heart procedure done!” she writes. “Three hours later and I’m on the mend.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, “Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a type of irregular heartbeat, also called an arrhythmia. It’s a very fast or erratic heartbeat that affects the heart’s upper chambers. SVT also is called paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.”

Though Green gave no details on her procedure, it may have been an SVT ablation. “[SVT] ablation is a treatment for irregularly fast or erratic heart rhythms that affect the heart’s upper chambers,” the Mayo Clinic states. “It uses cold or heat energy to create tiny scars in the heart. The scars block faulty electrical signals and restore the heart rhythm.” This procedure typically takes three to six hours.

Green’s last match was a losing effort to Tiffany Stratton in an Elimination Chamber qualifier on SmackDown in early February, a match that also included Lash Legend. Since then she has mostly been seen in a wheelchair, being pushed around by Alba Fyre. With Fyre being released last week, Green appeared alone on SmackDown, popping out of her wheelchair and apparently forming an alliance with Stratton against Kiana James and Giulia.