| Name | Michael |
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| Location | USA |
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| Age | 70 |
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| Diagnosed condition | AFib & AFlutter & Atrial Septal Defect |
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| Years with condition | Lifetime for ASD & Unknown for AFib (maybe 30 years) |
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| Frequency of episodes | Short term - all the time |
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| Duration of episodes | all the time |
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| Event preceding first AF | Flu condition which would not leave, dizzie spells, passing out |
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| General health | No |
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| Current state | AFib is gone, I feel much better, peripheral problems I still have |
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| Triggers | caffeine, MSG, exertional exercise, stress, over eating, short on rest,
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| Preventions | There were no known preventions at time of Pulmonary Vein Isolation ablation. Nothing worked, even electrical defibrillation. |
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| Current medications/side effects | Warfarin 6MG a day
Tiksoyn 250 mcg twice a day
(If all goes well, I might be able to give these up) |
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| Past medications/side effects | Will come back and fill this part in |
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| History of surgery | 12/1999 St. Jude Medical Mod 5342 Pacemaker
05/2000 Stomach Hernia Repair
09/2002 Cataract left eye
10/2004 Cataract right eye
01/2005 Repair of Cataract left eye
03/2005 Right Flutter ablation
07/2005 Pulmonary Vein Isolation |
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| Future plans | Will come back and fill this part in. I'm not sure. |
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| Personal comments | Improve my health by working on what I call sensible recovery from my Pulmonary vein isolation procedure. This involves a daily exercise program of walking and slowly increasing the intensity over many months. Stretching and self massaging my body on a daily basics is also very important. Very light weights are also important especially if one is not physical active. I have found that through all the years of having ASD and AFIB that being physically active (but not over stressing my heart ) is the best medicine. Any kind of house chores I do, painting, gardening, up and down stairs, and much more. For me the important point to remember is not to over exert. Over exerting or doing nothing always caused me AFIB problems. I feel it is very important to exercise my heart through the range of 55 bpm to 110 bpm every day or another way of expressing this is to say I do about 3 hours of moderate activity a day.
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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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