AFibbers Database: Cathy B

Name	Cathy B
Location	St. Louis, MO
Age	57
Diagnosed condition	afib
Years with condition	2 months
Frequency of episodes	multiple per week
Duration of episodes	from 2 to 14 hours
General health	overweight, sedentary
Current state	paroxysmal
Triggers	Alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, lying down, lying on left side.
Preventions	Deep breathing can sometimes convert me
Current medications/side effects	Tikosyn/dofetilide (250 x 2) and diltiazem (180 24 hrs) Lipitor (10 mg) Potassium (10 mg eq) Xarelto (20 mg) Fish oil (1000 mg/day) Zantac (150 mg)
Past medications/side effects	Propafenone (diltiazem) 225 x 2, GI upset, not effective aspirin (325 mg) HCT (hydrochlorothiazide) for borderline blood pressure, 4 years. Hospital cardiologist discontinued at diagnosis with the comment "cardiologists hate that drug."
History of surgery	uterine artery embolization 2000
Future plans	ablation if it doesn't settle down
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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