AFibbers Database: kathleen green bay

Name	kathleen green bay
Location	new york
Age	64
Diagnosed condition	chronic permanent AF
Years with condition	1.25
Frequency of episodes	chronic
Duration of episodes	chronic
Event preceding first AF	none (mild atrial tachycardia for about ten years)
General health	good
Current state	good, some fatigue, otherwise very active
Triggers	none - chronic
Preventions	none for almost ten years, propanolol worked in 45 minutes to stop what we thought was tachycardia but was probably early paroxysmal AF
Current medications/side effects	atenolol and digoxin for rate control coumadin for anticoagulation lasix (furosemide) for some ankle swelling
Past medications/side effects	propanolol - worked for years, then lost effectiveness toprol - caused gas - switched to atenolol calcium channel blockers - caused terrible edema
History of surgery	artificial hip, three years plus, no AF surgery
Future plans	considering ablation, probably won't do it, comfortable at about 85% of normal energy level, no "episodes"
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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