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What downside have you experienced after an ablation?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Mar 23 12:28pm | Replies (82)Comment receiving replies
Here's hoping it works. I'm glad they want to deal with him aggressively because you don't want his heart to become so remodeled that the ablation becomes all but a waste of time. A heart that spends a long time, months, in ectopy has a tendency to develop fibrosis and collagen deposits in the 'substrate', which makes it more inefficient and it has to work harder.
Again, I hope it works!
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Thanks. He has a long story starting with repeated falls from meds he was taking for restless legs. This culminated with his having a brain bleed and spending 7 weeks in the hospital. He came home from the rehab hospital looking like the Michelin Man so was back in for heart failure. He came home and within 2 weeks was back in with emergency hernia surgery. It goes on from there but I won't continue. It is such a horrible experience to go to the ER that he now says he would rather die than go. It is always full and you will likely end up in the hallway or even in one end of the waiting room and wait hours for any help. When he had to use the bathroom, an attendant handed me a urinal for him to use. I guess it's this way in ERs almost everywhere. He developed the Afib after the brain bleed but I don't know if there is a connection. Since we have no family other than cousins who live 200 miles away it all falls to me and I'm getting tired.