Chelsea Green’s health situation has proven to be significantly more serious than the ankle injury that has kept her out of in-ring action for months, with the WWE star revealing on Instagram that she underwent a heart procedure after a decade of living with an undiagnosed condition.
Green shared a photo from her hospital bed, smiling alongside her husband, Matt Cardona, as she delivered the news with characteristic positivity despite the circumstances.
“After 10 years, doctors finally caught my SVT and I was able to get a heart procedure done! Three hours later and I’m on the mend.”
SVT, or supraventricular tachycardia, is a type of irregular heartbeat classified as an arrhythmia. According to the Mayo Clinic, it is a very fast or erratic heartbeat that affects the heart’s upper chambers. The condition can cause episodes of a racing heart, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and lightheadedness, and in Green’s case it went undetected by doctors for ten years before finally being identified.
The procedure she referenced is likely an SVT ablation, a treatment that uses cold or heat energy to create tiny scars in the heart that block the faulty electrical signals responsible for the irregular rhythm, restoring a normal heartbeat. The procedure typically takes between three and six hours, which aligns with the timeline Green described in her post.
Green’s last match was a losing effort to Tiffany Stratton in an Elimination Chamber qualifier on SmackDown in early February in a match that also included Lash Legend. Since then she has been working through an ankle injury, spending much of her SmackDown time in a wheelchair being pushed around by Alba Fyre as part of an on-screen dynamic. With Fyre released last week as part of WWE’s post-WrestleMania roster cuts, Green appeared alone on SmackDown most recently and showed signs of a new direction, popping out of her wheelchair and apparently forming an alliance with Stratton against Kiana James and Giulia.
Best wishes go out to Green for a full and speedy recovery from her procedure.