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Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Mar 15 7:08pm | Replies (33)
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@harveywj

This thread is about PSVTs and and not Afib. Comparing the 2 can be very confusing. There is no need to hijack the thread comparing your history of Afib ablation to someone with PSVT ablation.
Key Differences:

Nature of the arrhythmia: SVT is a regular, fast heartbeat, while AFib is an irregular, often rapid heartbeat.

Target area: SVT ablation targets specific pathways or foci, while AFib ablation focuses on the atrial tissue, particularly the pulmonary veins.
Success rates: SVT ablation generally has higher success rates than AFib ablation.

BTW Afib can kill you and or leave you permanently disable with a stroke. The statistics are all over the web.

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gloaming | @gloaming | Mar 15 7:08pm

If you were to read my comment in toto, With comprehension, you'd have seen that my mention of AF was only to situate me as a patient who has had an ablation, and that ablations fail, not that I have AF. AF is the only difference between me and the person to whom I replied, and it would be unethical to claim otherwise, as you well know. Nothing else about my comment is incorrect, misinformed, or in any way inaccurate. If you'd care to challenge that assertion, kindly produce any evidence you may have. For example, that AF can kill you; nobody dies solely from AF. They may go on to develop comorbidities as a result of unmanaged AF, but people live with AF for literally decades, as you would recall if you had read claims from many posting here. https://drjohnday.com/will-atrial-fibrillation-kill-you/
AF ablation focuses on the pulmonary veins, but also the coronary sinus [ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1540703/%5D and the left atrial appendage. Finally, while I cannot dispute that SVT ablation has a substantially better success rate for index ablations, it still has-significant rate of failure which the poster should be aware of, but more-so its rate of recurrence varies depending on the type of arrhythmia that falls under SVThttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34792208/ .
I accept your rebuke that I could have focused my response less on AF than I did.

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