| Name | Patti |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA |
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| Age | 45 |
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| Diagnosed condition | Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter |
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| Years with condition | 1.75 |
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| Frequency of episodes | Almost daily |
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| Duration of episodes | 15 minutes to 8 hours |
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| Event preceding first AF | None diagnosed |
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| General health | Good (former smoker; occasional glass of wine) |
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| Current state | Fair (have some limitations from a stroke and exhaustion while in AF) |
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| Triggers | Dehydration; Premenstration; Lack of Sleep; Deep breathing; Caffeine; Alcohol; and Sleep |
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| Preventions | Other than avoiding triggers, no known preventions. |
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| Current medications/side effects | Coumadin (no known side effects).
Tikosyn (caused elongation of QT wave)
Metoprolol (depending on dose, it causes very low pressure and lightheadness)
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| Past medications/side effects | Amiodarone - After loading and increase in dose, it worked well for about 3 months. I stopped it recently because it was not controlling AF very well and I had side effects (skin problems and possibly mental fatigue);
Rhythmol(no side effects, but it didn't control AF)
Norpace (caused constipation, it did a great job of controlling AF in the middle of the night but I had to stop taking it because I started having more AF during the day) |
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| History of surgery | N/A |
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| Future plans | I just started Tikosyn in mid May 2001. I was recently diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and need to get that treated before deciding what else, if anything, I need to do for the AF. |
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| Personal comments | My father has AF. and my 42-year-old sister was also just diagnosed with AF. They suffer from congestive heart failure. Luckily, my heart muscle is healthy. In 01/00, I had a moderate to large stroke in right temporal area the day after a cardioversion. I had the cardioversion because I had been in atrial flutter for about 40 hours. For four months before the cardioversion, I was taking rhythmol and aspirin and unfortunately was not taking coumadin at the time. |
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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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