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A member asked:
Can a pacemaker suppress the naturally occurring heart rate and be used for treating bigeminy if extreme weakness is present?
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NO: A pacemaker will not suppress bigeminy - you'll get fusion beats (beats that occur from both the pacemaker and from the irritable focus in your heart). There are meds that can help but ultimately, an ablation can suppress incessant ventricular ectopy if meds fail. Are you seeing an electrophysiologist? (you should be).
Answered 10/30/2012
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It depends: You are actually asking a very sophisticated question here which requires a deal of nuance. There are a couple of ways the bigeminy can arise, and a pacemaker may make it considerably better or considerably worse depending on which of these two ways to beat arises. Discussion with a cardiac electrophysiologist is advised.
Answered 9/29/2019
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