AFibbers Database: greg yang

Name	greg yang
Location	muntinlupa. philippines
Age	52
Diagnosed condition	paroxysmal atrial fribillation
Years with condition	3 years
Frequency of episodes	2 to 3 times a week
Duration of episodes	a few hours to 24 hours
Event preceding first AF	colon surgery to take out a non malignant polyp
General health	no other sickness
Current state	not cured episodes continues
Triggers	caffein, over exercise, sudden emotion or anger,exersicing right after eating, or food with excess MSG, too much chocolate
Preventions	It not clear sometimes just resting and at times just continuing with the activity such as playing golf. or have fun chatting and socializing with people.
Current medications/side effects	Tanbocor, 200mg daily, 100mg in the morning and the other at night. Cardiosel, 12.5mg each in the morning and night. plavix, one at night No side effects that i am associating with the medicine
History of surgery	colon surgery
Future plans	still evaluating and wondering if i should go for ablation
Personal comments	Just want to know more about atrial fribillation and the recent finding on best and less risky ways to cure it. Also how to best handle it when i get an episode.
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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