AFibbers Database: Dennis C

Name	Dennis C
Location	St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Age	45
Diagnosed condition	paroxsymal a-fib
Years with condition	16
Frequency of episodes	now, approximately once per month
Duration of episodes	18-20 hours
Event preceding first AF	holiday heart, excess alcohol
General health	do not smoke or drink, somewhat overweight
Current state	occasional episodes
Triggers	alcohol, flying - altitude - hypoxia, large meal late, onset hours after exercise. My episoldes always happen at night, typically shortly after I have fallen asleep. Lying on my back or left side seems to trigger it.
Preventions	running up stairs or uphill briefly when I feel the precursor ectopic heart beats.
Current medications/side effects	Attenolol, feel tired on occasion. Aspirin daily.
Past medications/side effects	I have had in the past Digoxin, verapamil, propanonal.
History of surgery	none
Future plans	I would like to try catheter ablation, either RF or newer cryogenic when enough data is available to evaluate. I may try to get my cardiologist to cut back on my beta blocker as I am reading that beta blockers might be contraindicated in vagal induced a-fib.
Personal comments	I am pleased to know this web site exists. It gives me some comfort in knowing others have this same problem. I would love to know more about ablation.
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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