Ectopics and Afib April 13, 2018 06:56PM |
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Re: Ectopics and Afib April 13, 2018 08:03PM |
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mwcf
So the question hypothetically is; what good would an ablation do? The evidence suggests that one procedure will for me as a paroxysmal AFr in otherwise good health have a 70% or slightly better chance of success (and 90% with 2 procedures), but based on the above reasoning I'm left unsure as to why and how, unless it stops every and all ectopics which I think we all know it doesn't/won't!
Re: Ectopics and Afib April 14, 2018 05:35AM |
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Re: Ectopics and Afib April 14, 2018 01:26PM |
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You're assuming your ectopics all exist outside the PVs but you don't really have any way of knowing that. It's entirely possible a PVI would isolate all of them (which could be just one location).
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Re: Ectopics and Afib April 15, 2018 02:01PM |
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Carey
Sure, it's possible, but that still doesn't doom a standard PVI to failure. The result might be you end up with the ectopics continuing in the form of PACs but no longer being able to sustain afib.
Re: Ectopics and Afib April 15, 2018 05:20PM |
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Catherine
What does that mean? Ectopics continuing in the form of PACS?
How can you tell the difference between PACS, ectopics and palpitations?
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