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After ablation, am I no longer a person with AFib?
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I've never had an ablation but is that normally done to try and iniate a AFib episode just after they think they stopped it? Sounds like pushing the luck button once to often.
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I don't have the experience to say where a procedure is "normally" done. It was done by Mayo staff in my case. Specifically, they said: "A re-map of the left
atrium was conducted and all four pulmonary veins were found to be acutely isolated with entrance block. We then performed atrial extrastimuli testing with single, double and triple (600 & 400 millisecond drive down to 200 msec) and atrial burst pacing and no atrial flutters/fibrillation was induced. We concluded the procedure here." I believe it is just all part of the "cure". If they had been able to induce AFib, I would imagine that they would have tried something more. Better to get if fixed right, I believe.