From Seattle area. Need second ablation & want the best provider. Found Electrophysiologists listed at Mayo, Rochester. Only gives background, education. No patient ratings, comments? How does one select a doctor for first appointment?
If anyone, having had an ablation, can share experience & recommend a doctor, be appreciated.
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Congrats on your success !
Did your doc use Catheter & Cryo or both ? Do you know if an EP study (mapping) was done first to find all the bad actors? What is .5 % burden – how measured?
Whatever used worked for you. I will be looking for second ablation with afib, flutter & pacs. Hoping no 2 will get it as do not want to go drug route.
The funny thing is have no symptoms. Feel fine & completely unaware had this condition. Keep wondering if this heart is so burdened, inefficient why unnoticed ? Maybe someone has heard an explanation?
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Catheter both groin pulmonary veins. Went in at 9 am out until 1 pm. Gen anesthesia. Woke up in hospital room. Overnight one night. Mapping was about 3 hours, zapping about an hour w robot. Tested end of procedure by trying to force heart back into AFib. Would not do. Burden measured 24/7 w home monitor connected to Mayo via my pacemaker electronically be c I have 6 sec pauses thus a Pacer to regulate. Normal is 2-3 sec pauses. Burden is % of time in AFib. Be/f ablation was 49.5% in AFib month of Aug. Ablation Sept 6. Mayo is awesome. They train their own EPs. My daughter sends Cards there to get trained for the Army Med Corps. Live only 50 mi away so easy for me.
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The key to successful procedure is the EP cardiologist and how/where he was trained.Mapping is the biggest part and take about 75% of the procedure time. It s key to successful results.
The EP doc has to know what he is doing. Not all are created equal. I have a friend who had an ablation somewhere else. Then a second time at Mayo who told him his first ablation had really screwed- up mapping. It took Mayo a long time in the EP lab to get everything straightened out.
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I had an ablation about 7 months ago because my congenital heart defect and the surgery I had at 18 months came back to haunt me with an episode of VT that didn’t end on its own. I got admitted to UWMC in Seattle and had an ablation, then an ICD implanted. Dr. Robinson is my EP. I was optimistic about everything except after the ablation. I don’t know what the mapping was, but I got a full-on 2 hour long MRI. I was told that I was going to be partially awake during the procedure so they could detect the rogue signal coming from the scar tissue. I ended up getting completely knocked out and was told I was squirming too much. I still have PVCs. I’m still just wondering what I should worry about.
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Has Dr AJ Deshmakh Sept 6 ablation. He is AWESOME and knows what he is doing. My daughter cardiology Chief, San Antonio, USArmy, came for it and she was very pleased.