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        <title>Three-Month Blanking Period After A-Fib Ablation Should Be Shortened, Researchers Say</title>
        <description> PracticeUpdate: [prac.co]</description>
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            <title>Re: Three-Month Blanking Period After A-Fib Ablation Should Be Shortened, Researchers Say</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ And, in fact, most of our EPs take us off antiarrhythmic meds about 2 months post ablation, demonstrating their clinical experience with recurrences.]]></description>
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            <title>Re: Three-Month Blanking Period After A-Fib Ablation Should Be Shortened, Researchers Say</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I agree, and posted research to that effect about a year and a half ago.  The article said that AF and PACs in the first 6 weeks don&#039;t predict a poor outcome as much as later runs in the last half of the blanking period do. I have assumed this to be correct, notwithstanding my own index failure at just six whole days, and a run of AF for about 12 hours at the two week mark after my second ablation...which never did repeat.  I have now gone 14 months free of any AF or PACs. <br />
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But from a personal standpoint, when I see people going to the Mayo Community Connect forums, or who come here, and say they are 6-14 weeks post ablation and still have symptoms or outright ECG evidence of PACs and AF, I feel badly having to tell them what I take to be an honest truth.  I am careful to point out that individual cases vary, sometimes by weeks, but that generally late onset of AF in the blanking period does not offer a salutary prognosis.]]></description>
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            <title>Re: Three-Month Blanking Period After A-Fib Ablation Should Be Shortened, Researchers Say</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ That&#039;s always been my impression. I don&#039;t think recurrence in the first 30 days is meaningful, but after that I don&#039;t think it bodes well. By no means is it always the case, but I think it trends that way.]]></description>
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            <title>Three-Month Blanking Period After A-Fib Ablation Should Be Shortened, Researchers Say</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ PracticeUpdate: [<a href="http://prac.co/l/26zmq94j"  rel="nofollow">prac.co</a>]]]></description>
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