Friend has atrial fibrillations, they’re going to take it out.
How bad are his a.f.'s that they have to do this?
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Huh??? Had the operations done last year. For the left side A-Fib, they (doctors) go in to the heart through the veins and arteries in the groin area. Bunch of catheters, probes, widgets. For me they did the cryo-ablation - froze the offending nodes that were re-transmitting heart beat pulses. I dropped from A-Fib to Atrial Flutter. My top sections of the heart dropped from 200-400 beats per minute (basically just quivering and not pumping much blood to/from the lungs) to 2 beats for every 1 ventricle beat. Massive improvement.
After 6 months of healing and evaluation, they went in on the right side with thermal ablation to get out the extra beat. That part didn’t go so well as some of the old nodes from the cryo-ablations kicked back in - so they had to go back to the left side for some more whack-a-mole.
Usually they get it in one shot but I had A-Fib for a long time (ten years) before the operation. I’m back on the bicycle again with no limitations.
Nothing gets taken out except freezing or burning out some nerve tissue. I was up and out of the hospital 2 hours after the operation and back to work 3 days later. Time was to let the incisions in the groin blood vessels heal. No golf for two weeks though.
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