AFibbers Database: Steve G.

Name	Steve G.
Location	Santa Monica CA USA
Age	66
Diagnosed condition	atrial fibrillation
Years with condition	11
Frequency of episodes	once per week
Duration of episodes	30 minutes
General health	never smoked, heavy drinker until 13 years ago, now none, 20 lbs overweight, out of shape, cholesterol
Current state	afib controlled well currently by Sotalol
Triggers	None known - occurence seems random
Preventions	None known. Usual conversion methods usually don't work. An extra sotalol sometimes seems to stop it.
Current medications/side effects	Sotalol, 80mg 3x/day prescribed, but I take 2x/day to save money
Past medications/side effects	Sequence of meds (all taken in addition to lanoxin), each working for a couple of years: quinidine, quinaglute, tambocor, rythmol, sotalol. Each drug gradually lost effectiveness. Awaiting long-term results with sotalol.
History of surgery	None for heart.
Future plans	Keep on sotalol until and if it stops working, then on to the next. My afib is currently well-controlled and does not warrant more drastic steps.
Personal comments	My mother had the same thing for many years, controlled with drugs, and lived to 91. Killed by stroke, not known whether associated with afib.
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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