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I have benign pacs at least the drs say there nothing to worry about got to get a upper endoscopy is the sedation safe with pacs? gastro says its fine
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Safe: If all you have are rare PACs and are otherwise asymptomatic, an upper endoscopy with sedation should be fine cardiac wise. Good luck!!
Answered 10/9/2015
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