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Managing and Living With PACs and PVCs

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@burke5500

I am in Nashville. I work with an EP at St. Thomas. I like him a lot, although I haven’t had much relief from my pvcs. He is open to doing an ablation but it seems that it’s rarely a long term fix. So I probably won’t go that route until I can’t take it anymore. There are several really good EPs here though. Good luck in your search for a new Dr.

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jc76 | @jc76 | Sep 3 6:14am

@burke5500
There are a lot of different outcomes on ablations. I can't speak for others success or not success. However I had an ablation on my RV and it stopped the PVCs coming from that area immediately.

That was about 10 years ago and I do not have PVCs anymore from RV only LV. My EP (Mayo Jacksonviille who is Director of Electrophysiology) said we could consider (recenlty) doing ablation on LV side but wanted to try medication first as LV was much harder to do. He did several holter monitor tests and PVCs were coming from several areas of LV.

The medication is working very well. Time to time still (PVCs) flare up.

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