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7.5% pvc burden
With 7.5% pvc burden what is the varies treatments? Burden was 2% a couple of years ago. I’m now 76. Feel the most when sleeping. Had PVCs when I was in my twenties. Seems to be getting more. Having an echo tomorrow to see if heart is strong. Walk 3 miles daily.
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Hello. For a basic and quick read, please see this:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/premature-ventricular-contractions/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20376762
A bit more advanced, but also more detailed:
https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/premature-ventricular-contractions-facts
Academic level for professionals wanting to see the latest:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6192796/
Essentially, they'll do workups and tests on you to see if you have any underlying problems that don't come immediately to the eye or the hand. They may do echocardiogram, MRI, stress tests, and of course the more basic stuff like determining if you have hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, kidney disease, pre-diabetes, anything they know has caused or is associated with PVCs in other patients.
Often it's just age. Maybe some stretching and scarring in the tissues of the vessels of your heart, maybe some valve problems. Almost all of this is fixable, especially if you are motivated and learn as much as you can.
Good luck to you!
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What do you know about amiodarone?
It is literally the drug of lasts resort. It is the most powerful anti-arrhythmia drug there is. It worked well for me when my heart went into a chaotic rhythm on the sixth day post-ablation. I was only on it for a total of eight weeks, though, and I am grateful. The reason is that some patients can take it and have no serious side-effects, at least not inside of a few months. Others will find themselves reacting poorly to it, or developing pulmonary hypertension, kidney problems, liver problems, even problems with their optic nerves. Its active component is iodine which it causes your body to adopt wholesale over other electrolytes in the potassium channels of myocytes (heart cells).
https://www.drugs.com/amiodarone.html
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Amiodarone-hydrochloride