| Name | vh |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA |
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| Age | 54 |
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| Diagnosed condition | paroxysmal atrial tachycardia |
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| Years with condition | 7 |
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| Frequency of episodes | once per week |
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| Duration of episodes | 3-24 hours |
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| General health | good health, aerobics 4-5 times/week, overweight though, heavy drinker in past but have quit |
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| Current state | Number of episodes doubling from year to year and getting longer |
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| Triggers | fatique, extreme hunger or thirst, alcohol, caffein, stuffing my stomach |
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| Preventions | Holding breath when I first feel heart skipping beats. Can't be sure I would have gone into full arrhythmia though.
Sometimes walking fast when I first feel heart skipping beats will even it out. Again, no way of telling if I was heading for full arrhythmia.
Neither works all the time, of course, or I would never go into arrhythmia.
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| Current medications/side effects | 40mg nadolol - feel tired a lot of the time, low heart rate (low 40's sometimes)
80mg aspirin
500mcg Tikosyn (started 10/02/02) |
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| Past medications/side effects | Digoxin - swelled up like a balloon and had vision problems
Cardizem - didn't work and gave me horrible constipation.
Toprol - since episodes continuing decided to change to another beta blocker |
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| History of surgery | gallbladder removed 5/02; one parathyroid removed 5/01 |
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| Personal comments | The episodes on Tikosyn seem to be less intense but I am very disappointed in the medicine. My episodes have actually increased since I used to have them approximately every other week. My doctor had told me I might get 2-3 years of complete freedom from episodes. NOT! |
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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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