| Name | Diann P. |
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| Location | NSW, Australia |
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| Age | (birth date): 25 Nov. 1949 |
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| Diagnosed condition | permanent (chronic) atrial fibrillation |
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| Years with condition | permanent started 9. 01. 2 1/2 years paraxsysmol |
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| Frequency of episodes | permanent now |
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| Duration of episodes | constant |
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| Event preceding first AF | Heart damage from rheumatic fever; lupus |
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| General health | It was good before the afib. I don't drink or smoke or drink coffee. |
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| Current state | challenging |
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| Triggers | very cold drinks
ice cream
Don't have to worry about these now because my heart is in permanent af. |
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| Current medications/side effects | Metoprolol 300mg a day; digoxin 250mg a day
Warfarin dosage varies sometimes 12mg a day. Sometimes only 10mg.
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| Past medications/side effects | Verapamil SR
Sotalol 80mg twice a day. Three times a day for a brief period. Made me more tired and more depressed than twice a day.
lanoxin (digoxin) Took this from 1982 til 1998. It was supposed to stop the extra heart beats I had. Didn't really do this. |
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| History of surgery | Open heart surgery 1982 to repair the mitral valve.
EPS was done in May 2001. They couldn't find anything they could ablate. They did find that I had 'dual retrograde AV nodal pathways'. But these could not be made to induce SVT. |
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| Future plans | To get well or at least manage this Afib |
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| Personal comments | This is a very challenging health situation. I don't like it. |
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| Check list |  acebutolol | amiodarone (cordarone,pacerone) | anisindione (miradon) | | atenolol (tenormin) | aspirin | azimilide | | bepridil | betaxolol | bisoprolol (monocor,emconcor) | | bretylium | bucindolol | carvedilol | | cibenzoline | dicumarol | digitoxin |  digoxin (lanoxin) | diltiazem (cardizem) | diphenylhydantoin | | disopyramide (norpace) | dofetilide (tikosyn) | dronedarone | | encainide | esmolol (brevibloc) | ersentilide | | flecainide (tambocor) | gallopamil | ibutilide (corvert) | | lidocaine | mibefradil | metoprolol (lopressor,toprol xl) | | mexiletine | moricizine | nadolol | | phenytoin | procainamide | propafanone (rythmol) | | propranolol (inderal) | quinapril (accupril) | quinidine (quinaglute) | | sotalol (betapace) | tedisamil | timolol | | tocainide | trandolapril (mavik) | valsartan (diovan) | | verapamil (calan,isoptin) | warfarin (coumadin) | asthma | | diabetes | GERD/acid reflux | hypertension | | hypotension | hyperthyroidism | hypothyroidism | | adrenergic | vagal | familial | | idiopathic/lone | paroxysmal | permanent/chronic | | atrial flutter | cardiomyopathy | CHF | | PAC | PVC | SVT | | syncope | bradycardia | tachycardia | | heart block | myocardial infarction | rheumatic heart diease | | sick sinus syndrome | stroke | WPW | | electrical cardioversion | defibrillator | pacemaker | | ablation | bypass | maze | | Male | Female | |
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