Help Me Understand Why Atrial Flutter is More Common After an Ablation than A-Fib May 06, 2023 07:12PM |
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If the ablation is a success, that means the scar lines are durable and are blocking ALL abnormal signals, correct?
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If the ablation is a success, that means the scar lines are durable and are blocking ALL abnormal signals, correct?
Yes, after the ablation lines have formed scar tissue and become non-conducting, and that takes a couple of months. Hence, the blanking period.
Flutter happens after an ablation because flutter is caused by electrical barriers in the atrial tissue that aren't perfect, that have holes in them where a signal can pass through and then keep going around and around in a self-perpetuating circle. Imperfect electrical barriers are exactly what your ablation is until it has completely formed scar tissue.
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Is the scar tissue you refer to, that which is formed arround the pulmonary veins?
Also do the ablated scars break down over time, as in Travis case, he had no flutter for 8 years after his first ablation.
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The ablations aren't failing; your body is simply forming new fibrotic tissue all on its own. That's why EPs have come to understand afib as an underlying heart disease known as atrial myopathy. It's also why the term "lone afib" is no longer recognized. Having afib is a form of structural heart disease, so the term doesn't make sense and misleads our thinking.
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If the electrical signals are coming from the gut then it's a gut problem and not the heart. Is that correct?
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Carey
your body is simply forming new fibrotic tissue all on its own. That's why EPs have come to understand afib as an underlying heart disease known as atrial myopathy. It's also why the term "lone afib" is no longer recognized. Having afib is a form of structural heart disease, so the term doesn't make sense and misleads our thinking.
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Carey - that's sobering. Given the progression of a-fib, does that mean it's impossible to put it to rest for good no matter how many ablations you have and no matter how well those ablations have been done?
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[I'm just having a really hard time understanding why atrial flutter is so much more common after an ablation than a-fib.
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