Guest guest Posted June 3, 2002 Report Share Posted June 3, 2002 Good for you Rich..........I'm almost jealous!! Ellen 69 NC (NSR on Dofetilide) ********************** ----- Original Message ----- From: celtic8586@... Well I 've got my appointment for the PVA procedure. July 11th. With Drs. phson and Zimetbaum at the Atrial Fibrillation Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. When I have it done, I'll give you all the play by play of the procedure. Rich O ************** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 3, 2002 Report Share Posted June 3, 2002 Good for you Rich..........I'm almost jealous!! Ellen 69 NC (NSR on Dofetilide) ********************** ----- Original Message ----- From: celtic8586@... Well I 've got my appointment for the PVA procedure. July 11th. With Drs. phson and Zimetbaum at the Atrial Fibrillation Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. When I have it done, I'll give you all the play by play of the procedure. Rich O ************** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2002 Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 Joe, Welcome back. Question? Will you require a pacemaker? Will the same Drs. perform the new procedure? I hope all goes well. The commute down 93 can be worse than the procedure!!! Rich O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2002 Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 Hello everyone. I good news/bad news. bad news is they went in to do my PVA procedure and could not perform it. Good news is that after 5 years they found out that I do not have atrial Fib. I have AV nodal tachacardia. Which come to find out is alot easier to cure with an ablation. I am going in on July 8 to have an av nodal ablation. Evidently they were inside me for 4 hours trying to figure out where the arrythmia was coming from. All my EKG's showed what looked like AFIB. What a surprise for them to find out that I am having tachacardia. My av node is sending 2 beats to my ventricles instead of 1. I am told that they have a high success rate of curing this and I will start my research asap. If there are any members with any experience or info on this would be appreciated. The technical term is AV nodal re-entry trachycardia. thanks, Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2002 Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 Hi Joe, I am sort of sorry to hear this but n the end it may be good news. I would be interested in this as this is the first I have heard of this conditon showing as Afib. With a nodal abaltion what do they do and will this need a pacer. Is this somehting white sndrome where you have another path. john C The Good news is the USA are still in the world cup. > Hello everyone. I good news/bad news. bad news is they went in to do > my PVA procedure and could not perform it. Good news is that after 5 > years they found out that I do not have atrial Fib. I have AV nodal > tachacardia. Which come to find out is alot easier to cure with an > ablation. I am going in on July 8 to have an av nodal ablation. > Evidently they were inside me for 4 hours trying to figure out where > the arrythmia was coming from. All my EKG's showed what looked like > AFIB. What a surprise for them to find out that I am having > tachacardia. My av node is sending 2 beats to my ventricles instead > of 1. I am told that they have a high success rate of curing this and > I will start my research asap. If there are any members with any > experience or info on this would be appreciated. The technical term > is AV nodal re-entry trachycardia. > > thanks, > > Joe > > > > Web Page - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AFIBsupport > FAQ - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AFIBsupport/files/Administrative/faq.htm > For more information: http://www.dialsolutions.com/af > Unsubscribe: AFIBsupport-unsubscribe > List owner: AFIBsupport-owner > For help on how to use the group, including how to drive it via email, > send a blank email to AFIBsupport-help > > Nothing in this message should be considered as medical advice, or should be acted upon without consultation with one's physician. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2002 Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 > Hello everyone. I good news/bad news. bad news is they went in to do > my PVA procedure and could not perform it. Good news is that after 5 > years they found out that I do not have atrial Fib. I have AV nodal > tachacardia. Which come to find out is alot easier to cure with an > ablation. I am going in on July 8 to have an av nodal ablation. Congratulations on progress, anyway. AV nodal tachycardia is a new one on me, so I did some web grubbing and found that yes it seems to be easily cured by ablation, and that it is hard to diagnose via an ekg. I wonder why they didn't do the ablation for it since they were in there anyway? Good luck on July 8th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2002 Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 I'll give ya a toast with some Bushmill at O'Reilly's in Southie, that all works out well! Rich O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2002 Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 > Joe, > Welcome back. > Question? > Will you require a pacemaker? > Will the same Drs. perform the new procedure? > I hope all goes well. > The commute down 93 can be worse than the procedure!!! > Rich O > > Hi Rich, I will only need a pacemaker if they accidently ablate both pathways (the slow and the fast).They are going to try to ablate the slow pathway first. This is one of the risks in performing this procedure (about 1 out of 1000). Overall it's about a 90-95% success rate. I will have the same doctors for this procedure. Looking for some of that good old boston Irish luck!!! thanks Joe > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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