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MuseRider

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Sun Oct 31, 2021, 07:32 PM Oct 2021

Ablation for PVC's [View all]

Has anyone here had this done? Not the ablation for atrial fib but for episodes of ventricular tachycardia? I had no idea they even did this but after piddle farting around with my cardiologist and the supposed regulation of spending 3 months on clinical med trials I escaped with an ejection fraction of 20 and a PVC load of 20% with the danger zone in the 10% area. Thank goodness for Electrophysicists. He is unsure if he can get to the area to ablate it because it is high up in my right ventricle. If he can't they will implant a defibrillator to keep me from dropping over dead, lol, but the heart failure will remain. I am a bit upset by this. He said maybe a 3 or 4 hour procedure and I have to be awake through it all.

Just wondering. This cannot be a rare thing but I had never heard of it and I try to keep up somewhat as a retired Critical Care Nurse.

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Ablation for PVC's [View all] MuseRider Oct 2021 OP
Haven't had it done, but.. luvs2sing Oct 2021 #1
Wow that was really lucky! MuseRider Oct 2021 #3
Almost 25 years ago lapfog_1 Oct 2021 #2
Oh thank you so much for being one of the first MuseRider Oct 2021 #4
When the beta blockers stopped working lapfog_1 Oct 2021 #5
God no with the paddles MuseRider Nov 2021 #6
Leaving to go to the Med Center MuseRider Nov 2021 #7
Failure. MuseRider Nov 2021 #8
pacemaker? lapfog_1 Nov 2021 #9
Still out of it lol MuseRider Nov 2021 #10
I am home and in better shape to be posting. MuseRider Nov 2021 #11
That is GREAT news lapfog_1 Nov 2021 #12
Hopefully the two of us MuseRider Nov 2021 #13
I ended up having a little stroke after all this. MuseRider Nov 2021 #14
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