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My ep cardiologist told me that everyone who has an cardiac ablation will eventually end up with a pacemaker - could be in 2 months, 2 years or 20 years but its inevitable i cant seem to find any stats that support this one way or another?
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Pacemaker: Ablation is relatively new. There is no data to support that as it does not exist.
Answered 2/11/2019
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