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Is 81 year old too old for ablation?
I'm an 81 year old female who had an ablation 11 years ago. Now having problems with being out of rhythm. I am on 200 mg of Amiodorone daily. It helps sometimes but not always. Are there others who are in similar situation--perhaps that did get an ablation? What was your experience following this procedure? Thanks.
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@fdixon63 Glad your EP was so good. Would you mind sharing his name. I am not far from the Miami area.
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Don't think 81 is the issue. It's our status... if the meds don't work for whatever reason, life is miserable, and we're otherwise healthy and can tolerate the typical surgical burden, and we have a really competent doc on board whose done thousands of these procedures, then we can give it a shot.
But remember: these are not always successful, quite often they're not successful... even after several, and sometimes things go bad while you're on the table, or complications arise which can be serious... and in a few cases even deadly. That's why we're asked to sign the consent form.
As long as I remain in the consistent excellent physical status I'm in (per my EP and GP), functional, without issues, without compromising my general health, continue to tolerate the only med I'm on (Apixaban), able to do basically anything I want to do (exercise, work around the house, etc), I'm choosing to not roll the dice. We're all experiments of one.
All the best!
/LarryG
I think it depends on the hospital. I've had 2 at the same hospital – one for A-flutter and the other for paroxysmal Afib and each one was preceded by a TEE. But I know other posters have had them without a TEE,