2023 AF Symposium Challenging Case―“Doc, I’m still having A-Fib. You’ve got to fix it.”
“According to my Apple watch, Doc, I’m still having A-Fib. You’ve got to fix it.”
That’s how Dr. John Day began relaying this challenging case at the 2023 AF Symposium. The patient was a 56-year-old young man in otherwise good health.
Dr. Day, from the Heart Center of St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT, describes the patient’s BMI as normal. He had had an ablation but was still in A-Fib. He had mild or moderate left atrium enlargement but no clear A-Fib triggers. He didn’t want to be on drugs. He had tried Flecainide which lowered his heart rate too much. He couldn’t exercise on Flecainide. How did Dr. Day proceed?
Dr. Day and his colleagues may have developed a new method of making patients with difficult cases A-Fib free.
To learn more, read my report, Challenging Case―Ablates Low Voltage High Frequency Areas.