Question 1

has anyone successfully cured atrial fibrillation?

Accepted Answer

Ablation&maze proced: Catheter ablation and surgical maze procedures can cure atrial fibrillation for many patients.

Question 2

atrial fibrillation versus ventricular fibrillation. causes and cures?

Accepted Answer

VF vs AF: Ventricular is lethal instantly. A fib is not lethal and treated with medications or ablation.

Question 3

is there a cure for atrial fibrillation? diagnosed in 2004.  taking medication to control it. still have flare-ups frequently.

Accepted Answer

Yes in some cases: Yes in some cases. The medical treatment can be focused on just keep your hear rate low or to try to convert you into normal rhythm. Cardio version is another treatment when you shock the patient under sedation. Procedure wise electro physiologists can do an ablation through the groin. Surgeons can do the ablation preferably minimally invasive through the side or a hybrid procedure - convergent.

Question 4

is there a cure for atrial fibrillation and bundle branch block?

Accepted Answer

Possibly: Atrial fibrillation can under some circumstances be cured by specialized ablation.  Bbb is generally not curable.  Talk to a cardiologist.

Question 5

how safe is a cardiac ablation?  will it help to cure atrial fibrillation? if it does, will i have to continue taking medication

Accepted Answer

Usually safe: Although many serious complications can occur during an ablation, when performed by a skilled physician with plenty if experience in a good hospital it is usually very safe. When successful an ablation may allow a patient to come off medications prescribed for the arrhythmia which was ablated. Atrial fibrillation is an arrhythmia which can be cured with ablation.

Question 6

beside taking arrhythmia medicines, what are other option for atrial fibrillation?  does a pace maker or defibrillator cure a fib?

Accepted Answer

Ablation.: After assessing the underlying cause of the fibrillation and measuring the size of the two atrial heart chambers, using echocardiography, one can predict the likelihood that the fibrillation will respond to electrical ablation using an intracardiac catheter.  Defibrillation of atrial fibrillation might not prevent a recurrence if the underlying cause still exists.

Question 7

what is atrial fibrillation?

Accepted Answer

Fast irregular pulse: When the small chambers of the heart  ( atria) are beating very fast ( more than 300 beats per minute) the  larger chambers beat fast and irregularly.

Question 8

is atrial fibrillation inherited?

Accepted Answer

Sometimes: There is a gene that makes the tendency to get it more likely, but most a fib is due to environmental and aquired factors such as age, valvular heart disease and alcohol.

Question 9

can atrial fibrillation cause ed?

Accepted Answer

No: Afib cannot directly cause ed.  Medicines used to treat afib can impair erections and conditions associated with afib such as heart failure, coronary disease also can cause ed.

Question 10

is atrial fibrillation hereditary?

Accepted Answer

No: Congenital heart problems can be inherited and this can lead to afib. But afib itself is not.

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