Dr. Jason Rubenstein
Cardiology
Milwaukee, WI
22 years experience male
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Milwaukee, WI
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Dr. Rubenstein utilizes modern techniques for treatment of cardiac rhythm disturbances, both medical and by catheter ablation. He also specializes in implantable defibrillators and pacemakers. Dr. Rubenstein’s research interests combine cardiac MRI and electrophysiology in the prediction of sudden d
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A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Jason Rubensteinanswered
Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: In general it is very low risk. There are different types of ablations with varying degrees of risk. Atrial fibrillation ablation tends to carry som... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: Palpitations, shortness of breath, lightheadedness are all common symptoms with either atrial fibrillation or flutter. Other symptoms may be fatigue,... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Yes.: A pacemaker will set off the airport metal detector. It may also inhibit pacemaker function briefly as you walk through. Just show the security agen... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Related, different: Atrial fib is a chaotic, irregular contraction of the top chambers of the heart (atria). Atrial flutter is a rapid, but regular beating of the atria.... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: Sources of electronic or magnetic fields (emi) can cause inappropriate function of a pacemaker or icd. Examples of these are mris, strong electric mo... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: In a study from 2005, during the first four years, the cumulative cost for a patient with a dual-chamber pacemaker was $27, 441. This price did not d... Read More
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A 45-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It depends: This could be a "normal" rhythm just going slow - sinus bradycardia. This may be due to medications, thyroid issues, high exercise conditioning, or f... Read More
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A 25-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It depends: Medications are usually first line therapy for atrial fibrillation. If your afib is bothersome, and it can not be controlled by medications, then con... Read More
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A 27-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Possibly.: If your atrial fibrillation is bothersome, and it can not be controlled by medications, then considering a catheter ablation is reasonable. The succe... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Not much.: In reality, there are no implants that are commonly used to control atrial fibrillation. There used to be atrial defibrillators, but these are not us... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It may prevent death: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (icds) are used to treat ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation, which if untreated, may cause a ... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies.: The most important treatment is stroke prevention, which is usually done by medications (aspirin or warfarin). Sometimes rate control medications are ... Read More
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A 16-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies.: The most important treatment is stroke prevention, which is usually done by medications (aspirin or warfarin). Sometimes rate control medications are ... Read More
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A 55-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It depends: Pacemakers might be implanted as part of a care plan for af - but this only prevents slow pulses that might come as a result of slow pulse with af, me... Read More
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: Palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, syncope, fatigue and sometimes none: some people are asymptomatic.
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: It depends on lots of things - is the patient on a blood thinner (it would take longer)? Most people think it takes at least 48 hours, but some studi... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Maybe: It depends. It won't prolong life or prevent strokes, but it may improve the quality of life if atrial fibrillation is significantly bothersome. Cat... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
No.: Both defibrillators (icds) and pacemakers can treat slow heart rhythms. Some pacemakers can perform anti-tachycardic pacing, which can terminate some... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies.: If heart block is the only cardiac issue, a pacemaker should fully correct this and cause no shortening of a person's life expectancy.
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: Racing heartbeats, or palpitations, may come from a wide variety of conditions. Premature atrial (pacs) or ventricular contractions (pvcs) are common... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: If heart block is the only cardiac issue, a pacemaker should fully correct this and cause no shortening of a person's life expectancy.
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A 33-year-old male asked:
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Small Risks.: In general it is very low risk; however, atrial fibrillation ablation tends to carry some of the highest risk of any the catheter ablations. The worl... Read More
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A 40-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Yes.: Yes, but the risk is very low, <1%.
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A 23-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
No: No, not unless you happened to be in af at the time of the echo. It can detect signs that a heart is prone to atrial fibrillation, like enlarged atri... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Not usually: Pvcs, especially with a recent normal stress test, are typically benign. However, they can be harmful to your heart if they are very frequent (>20% o... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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It depends: Radiation therapy near the pacemaker generator (the battery pack) can damage the device. If the beam is expected to touch the generator, often the pa... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Usually: Almost always. It may terminate on it's own in some circumstances, but not very often. If you had a internal or external defibrillator, then you cou... Read More
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Cardiology 22 years experience
No.: Icds may help prevent cardiac arrest, but do not prevent the heart from failing due to heart attack, or progressive muscle weakening. Other non-heart... Read More
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: In general it is very low risk. There are different types of ablations with varying degrees of risk. Atrial fibrillation ablation tends to carry som... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: Cardiac MRI will show heart function, valves, and if they give contrast, can show evidence of prior heart attacks. Sometimes it can show blocked arte... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Cardiac Arrest risk: When the risk for cardiac arrest is high enough, a physician may recommend a patient get an icd. This might be for patients with a weak heart, genetic... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Maybe: Hard to say from your description. Pauses can occur due to pvcs, pacs, av block, sinus arrhythmia, sinus arrest, sa exit block, af with slow response... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: Some recording of the heart rhythm needs to be made. This can be via 12-lead ekg, 24-hr holter monitor, or 30-day loop monitor. Sometimes it is picked... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
The veins.: The veins under the skin in the upper chest are accessed to place the pacemaker/icd leads. These are the axillary or cephalic veins. The leads are t... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
The same.: "catheter ablation" and "radiofrequency ablation" are really terms for the same procedure. Some ablations use other energy sources (like freezing) to ... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
I, II, III and IV: Class i is divided into ia, ib, and ic. These are sodium channel blockers. An example from this class would be propafenone. Class ii agents are be... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Yes.: Atrial fibrillation increase the risk of stroke, which can be disabling or fatal. Strokes from af tend to be worse than non-af strokes. Additionally, ... Read More
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Not long.: There really is no recovery time at all. The small scars placed in the heart may have some edema for a few days, but are probably at their chronic sc... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
No.: Cardiac ablation (as long as no device was implanted) is not a contraindication for MRI of any body part.
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A 52-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
No limit.: There is no limit. However, if atrial fibrillation keeps recurring, it would make more sense to explore other options (medications, ablation) rather ... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Electrical system: A defibrillator causes all myocardial (heart) cells to become depolarized at the same time. This extinguishes the abnormal arrhythmia, and allows the... Read More
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Because its quiet.: Palpitation usually aren't really more frequent at night, just more noticeable. When you lay down and are still and quiet, the irregular heart beats ... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: Presumably you are asking about ventricular fibrillation, since atrial fibrillation would hardly ever by fatal. The risk of vf, or cardiac arrest, va... Read More
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It depends: With the evidence we have currently, catheter ablation is probably the most effective cure for atrial fibrillation (afib). However, that doesn't mean... Read More
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Yes.: If the heart rate is elevated for prolonged periods of time, there is a risk for tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy - or weakening of the heart from r... Read More
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies: The most important treatment is stroke prevention, which is usually done by medications (aspirin or warfarin). Sometimes rate control medications are ... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Yes: Af is a disease that become more common after age 50. It is unusual, but not especially rare, to have af before this age. Often other conditions can b... Read More
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Depends: It depends in what time of person the irregular heart beat is happening. Someone young may be more likely to have premature atrial or ventricular con... Read More
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Cardiology 22 years experience
It Varies.: A clue may be irregular pulse on exam. To make the diagnosis officially, some recording of the heart rhythm needs to be made. This can be via 12-lea... Read More
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Cardiology 22 years experience
Very effective.: Wpw is a short-circuit of the normal heart conduction pathways due to abnormal heart tissue (usually present since birth). There is a small area that... Read More
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Dr. Rubenstein is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Dr. Rubenstein is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thanks doc, I've been trying to get off amiodarone for a while and finally got my Physicians approval. There are no effects there seem to be anyway. It's been a week and...Read More
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you Dr I appreciate this very much it was very helpful. How soon can I get back on Effexor ER? I've been off for almost 1 month.
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Thank you very much. Thats why they say ill need a defibulater instead of a pace maker. Once this is done tho. They say i wont get to do mri
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