How fast do atria dilate due to afib and is this process reversible? December 28, 2018 08:00AM |
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It's very individual. I know of people with severely enlarged atria who've experienced less afib than you.
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Of course, you're right, we're all different. But do those people have enlarged atria because of afib or the opposite? Or does their afib enlarge already enlarged atria?
And what's "less afib"? I don't know how it works in this case, but having 250*2h afib in three years is likely different for the heart than having, say, 5*100h afib during the same time...
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Re: How fast do atria dilate due to afib and is this process reversible? December 29, 2018 05:27PM |
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Persistent afib must be awful.
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Persistent afib must be awful.
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Persistent afib must be awful.
Actually, a lot of people with persistent afib don't feel it at all. It's often diagnosed incidentally during an exam for some other issue. There don't seem to be many (any?) persistent afibbers here, but there are a number of them on stopafib.org and most report feeling few if any symptoms.
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Question about persistent Afib....
does this mean your heart is quivering 24/7? So, the blood is pooling in the top chambers of your heart? Doesn't this cause heart failure pretty quickly?
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Question about persistent Afib....
does this mean your heart is quivering 24/7? So, the blood is pooling in the top chambers of your heart? Doesn't this cause heart failure pretty quickly?
Yep, persistent afib means you're constantly in afib and have been for a week or more. After months of persistent afib, it's called longstanding persistent. And if you decide you're not going to attempt to stop it with drugs or ablation, it's called permanent afib.
It doesn't cause heart failure as long as you take effective rate control medications to keep your ventricular rate under 100. Most people with persistent afib take a beta blocker daily for this purpose. I know a guy who's 70, he's in permanent afib and has been for years. He takes a daily beta blocker and an anticoagulant. His resting heart rate is in the 70s with the beta blocker, and he competes in senior marathons. He's completely asymptomatic and doesn't feel the afib at all.
It's a high ventricular rate that leads to heart failure. People with afib and rates over 100 who don't control that rate can indeed end up in heart failure. I know a guy that happened to because he allowed atrial flutter at 125 to continue for months without controlling it.
Your atria quivering away endlessly can lead to atrial enlargement, but atrial enlargement isn't really harmful. It only matters if you're going to try and stop the afib because it makes ablations more difficult.
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So "quivering" is still beating, just faster?
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