Natural pacemaker of heart
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from the EKG online it seems that whenever the pacemaker starts his artificial pulses, the heart simply follow this pulses.
I ended up having every type of SVT except Wolf H Syndrome. My cardiologist was scared he would have to put a pacemaker in at the time and wants to go back in for another ablation 3-d mapping in 3 mths. My questions are: 1. Is it normal or common to have more than one type of SVT? 2. If I ended up with a pacemaker could I have more children? 3. What would the risk of future pregnancies be with and without the pacemaker??
Also, the med helps stable the heart rate, but if the sinus node pacemaker output is abnormal, the heart rate could be slow enough to cause formation of blood clots and a heart attack or too fast causing the heart to be unable to pump enough blood into circulation with each heartbeat and cause heart failure.
However, having an improperly working pacemaker could mean that your heart would struggle to maintain a natural rhythm AFTER the premature beats occur. Once the pacer is replaced, you are likely to still experience the occasional PVC or string of PVC's, but they will not be of concern as long as the pace maker is in proper working condition.
I would hope that your doctor could obtain a new pacemaker from a different company.
Yes, that's exactly what it amounts to. A friend of mine had it done, but I had the sneaky suspicion - and still do - that they screwed up his ablation and now the pacemaker has to provide the heartbeat completely and not only when needed.
I misread your post. He has 2-3 months REMAINING on the battery. The device fires an electrical pulse to either make the heart or assist the heart to contract, just as the heart's natural electrical system does. Depending on how "defective" that electrical system is, it's possible the device could stop working, yet his heart could continue to function. I think there's a lot of unknowns in providing you with a more accurate answer.
Yes, the condition can infect the heart's natural pacemaker. The heart's "natural" pacemaker is called the sinoatrial (SA) node or sinus node. It's a small mass of specialized cells in the top of the heart's right atrium (upper chamber). It makes the electrical impulses that cause your heart to beat.
Well it does sound logical that your pacemaker could be the cause of shortness of breath. If my heart had a max rate of 70, I know I would be short of breath. I had a similar thing in 2009 when overdosed with beta blockers. Every kind of exertion had me breathing really fast which will be a natural reaction when the heart doesn't beat fast enough to get oxygen around the body.
well it might be better to have a c-section, cause the stress on your heart while giving natural birth might be to much to handle and that would be really bad if your pacemaker failed and they didnt have the baby out yet cause they would have to do an emercency c-section and have to fix your pacemaker again
Jon is correct. You can't judge the complete population of pacemaker devices on the probability of run of specific models that may have had a manufacturing problem. It appears to be a recall or heads up for any probable problems.... A malfunction of a device is 1.4 per 1000. One out every 50 devices manufactured is defective is ridiculous...should be ashamed to post the comment.:)
The pacemaker should not even be an issue.
do you have an ICD/defrillator also?
In other cases, people may have no symptoms but are at high risk for dangerously slow heart rates because of disturbances of the electrical system of the heart. A pacemaker may be recommended for these people before symptoms occur. There are no electrical disturbance shown with your post?!
Because a wrong decision can be very serious I would hesitate to second quess a doctor's assessment.
A person in heart failure should be on a cocktail of drugs and usually a pacemaker or ICD is implanted, but even then it won't stop the heart from failing completly.
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As to why her doctor did not order a pacemaker I can only guess he assumed her case was too far gone and the risk of the procedure did not outweigh the benefits.
Until the day God has set aside for you. A pacemaker will ensure your heart works to the correct rhythm and rate and you will live to your natural age of death. It is a fix. So dont start worrying about that because you will get stressed and become ill again. I wish you a good long and healthy life.
In order to keep the heart rate sufficently fast, Doctors sometimes need to implant a Pacemaker that will discharge only when the SA Node fails to fire. This type of Pacemaker monitors the heart, and if the SA Node goes too long without firing, the Implanted Pacemaker will discharge, therefore keeping the heart rate fast enough. If the SA Node works as expected, the Implanted Pacemaker does not do anything, just monitors.
Worst case scenario, but 49 is not that serious, however, if the heart dropped beats when its rate was 49, that might be heart block (block of impulses from atria down to the ventricles whose pumping makes the pulse). In that case you may or may not need a pacemaker...the sinus node (natural pacemaker dysfunction) problem. If considered serious, an EKG test may be appropriate.
I recently had a St. Jude Pacemaker installed to lessen the incidents of my Atrial fibrillation. I was having attacks once per week and I am very symptomatic. My cathleter Ablations had not resolved the fibrillation. I am currently using Sotalol in conjunction with the pacemaker. I was wondering what other people's experience with pacemaker was ???
2) Considering her need for a higher dosage and her occasional heart block, the combo of verapimil and a pacemaker is an appropriate next step. As I recall, a member of this board, scouser costa rica, has a pacemaker like your wife's doctor is recommending and it's working out well for him (he also takes amiodarone to decrease the frequency of afib episodes and to lower his heart rate when it does occur)..
3) There are two types of ablation to consider.
My daughter was diagnosed with a variety of heart problem when she was two months old. She currently has a pacemaker which she only uses when her heart rate goes above 115 bpm. When she has surgery 7 years ago the surgeon lost a surgical needle in the center (av node) area of her heart. Could the needle be the reason she is having heart block? She is ten now.
my MD was not able to ablate my area of trouble because it was where the natural pacemaker is??? so he started me on sotolol... 40mg bid...
im not feeling the dizziness that i had before and i dont feel my heart rhythm going out of whack all the time, but i do still feel my heart beat skip on occassions..
is this normal? will this continue???
will i always be on sotolol???
t know if maybe there is a medication that can control my heart rate versus a pacemaker? Do you know of anything? When I was hospitalized and they could not get the heart rate up they put me on Theopholyn, caugh medicine and what ever they could find to get my heart rate up. My heart races on me just walking up a flight of stairs or taking the garbage to the curb. I do not want to have a heart attack, and my doctor will not listen to me about how I feel.
He said that the tests came back OK.
1, which means that every other heart beat originating from the natural pacemaker of the heart (the sinus node) was getting through the atrioventricular node (AV node), the single electrical connection from the top of the heart to the bottom of the heart. This means that the actual heart rate and cardiac output was decreased.
Without seeing your child’s ECG and evaluating your child, I cannot give you specific information.
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