new PM

• by mikki14
• 2008-08-19 03:08:18
• Surgery & Recovery
• 1709 views
• 7 comments

Hi there, first - I would like to apologize because of my English - I hope that you will underestand me... I am from the Czech Republic (Europe), I am 22 years old. I had many (5) ablation of sinus node. Each ablation took a lot of hours (from 6 till 9 hours). First I had 2 normal (endocardial) ablation of SA node, then 1 endocardial and epicardial ablation of SA node too, then 1 surgical (thoracoscopical) ablation with take away the phrenicus nerve, because I had the nerve really very near the sinus node. I had inappropriate sinus tachycardia with average heart beat about 130-140/min (during 24 hours holter monitoring) and then I had multifocal SV tachycardia (from 180 till 250/min) and onetime I had ventricular arythmia as well. And then another (5th) endocardial ablation. Doctors tried to modifiy it very much, but I had still average heart beat about 130/min. They burned really a lot, but the heart beat was still the same, so that they must interrupt the AV node and then they implanted the PM. I had interrupted the SA node after the 4th ablation but the average pulse was still about 130/min. I am glad that I have the PM now, because when I was on the last check-up the doctor told me that the pulse of my atriums is still about 200/min, which is really a lot - I think ;-).. but the ventricles goes about 50-60/min without the PM, but of course the PM stimulate it.

I wish to everyone just the best and a lot of health.

Kind regards!

Misa