AFibbers Database: travis

Name	travis
Location	bc, canada
Age	67
Diagnosed condition	chronic atrial fibrillation
Years with condition	15
Frequency of episodes	avg. 1/month first 10 years
Duration of episodes	avg. 2 days ...continued to increase as years went by
Event preceding first AF	high stress @ high altitude
General health	good, non smoker, social drinker
Current state	chronic a-fib
Triggers	stress, alcahol, lack of sleep, coffee
Preventions	none
Current medications/side effects	aspirin 180 mgs, acebutolol 100 mgs, varapamil 240 mgs
Past medications/side effects	lanoxin .25, quinidex 300, isoptin 240, sotalol 80, accupril 5, coumadin 3.5, novahydrazide 25,
History of surgery	1/2001 - right atrium ablated - nsr 4 weeks 12/2001 - left atrium ablated - nsr 4 hrs.
Future plans	5/2005 left atrium ablation - new technique
Personal comments	make yourself comfortable with as few drugs as possile and continue to seek complete cure.
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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