Warfarin use in atrial fibrillation
Common Questions and Answers about Warfarin use in atrial fibrillation
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my mother underwent for the valve replacemet(mitral valve and tissue valve)before two years.suddenly she got blood clot in her leg.she ask to use warfarin to remove the blood clot.now she is getng back to normal.may i knw why was it happened suddenly and will it occur in fucture? will this lead to stroke? doctor saying cox of the heart rhythm problem.
is that occuring cox of her valve?
probably medication is the go for you. my mother has atrial fibrillation and she takes atenol and it works excellent. doesn't control the rhythm, but controls the speed and her high blood pressure well.
I have periods of persistent atrial fibrillation. The first was in 2010 and was successfully cardioversed precisely after six months. The second period was in spring 2012 and was cardioversed after six weeks' warfarin treatment. The present period is going on now (from 6. January) and will be cardioversed after 7 weeks from the beginning.
An electric cardioversion immediately after the onset of AF is possible only when one is 100% sure that it has not lasted more than 48 h.
I am a 70 year old male who was diagnosed with Lone Atrial Fibrillation in June of this year. My General Practitioner at the time immediately put me on 25 mg of Metoprolol to be taken twice a day in addition to Warfarin which I took once a day. However, when I visited the Cardiologist for the first time last Wednesday he informed me that neither he nor any of the other Cardiologists wanted me to continue taking Warfarin, and that they wanted me to switch over to one 81 mg baby aspirin a day.
Eliquis which belongs to a class of drugs called Factor Xa inhibitors is a new generation oral anticoagulant / blood thinning drug and is expected to replace warfarin the current gold standard treatment for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.
The clinical data on Eliquis in atrial fibrillation is most impressive, when compared to Xarelto or Pradaxa.
Is it possible to have both atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter? I am on the drug flecainide and wonder if this is safe.
i have atrial fibrillation and am on heart pressure and heart pills. i also take prozac. i would like to know whether
hawthorne berry treatment which i am about to start taking for the atrial fibrillation would have any ill affects mixed
with prozac. i have already researched that hawthorne berry tincture has no bad interactions with any heart
medicine treatments. would i still have to take baby aspring each day if I am on the hawthorne berry treatment.
Maybe most of my anger results from patient mistreatment in the hospital in 2010 when I had atrial fibrillation and other diseases at the same time. In May this year I was also mistreated, for which I am angry. Bercause I have seen how they work in the hospital, I can conclude that if I were very seriously ill, almost dying, I cannot get help or I may receive wrong medicine. The public health care is in so poor condition. I must go to myself and try to treat my diseases as I can.
In the case of occasional atrial fibrillation, would the use of blood thinners be necessary for a patient with historically low platelet count?
This is not the case for those with mechanical valves. For example, a young person with occasional atrial flutter/fibrillation may be able to get buy with just an aspirin a day. I'm an old guy with permanent atrial fibrillation and I take both Coumadin (Warfarin) and aspirin.
Each medication has its own specific indications. For example, a patient who has atrial fibrillation and also a recently placed coronary stent, would have good reasons to be on both warfarin and plavix.
I am 69 years old and had a mitral valve repair last September, immediately following which I was in atrial fibrillation and given Amiodarone and Warfarin. This has now settled and I now have first degree heart block and am doing a cardiac rehab programme. My resting heart rate is 80 and my target exercise range is 101 - 113 but it only goes up to 98 during exercise (15 on Borg scale). Can you suggest what is causing this and what the implications / remedies may be.
If he had a single episodes of atrial fibrillation and has not had it since, if it were my patient I would stop the tikosyn. the worse case scenario is a recurrence of atrial fibrillation.
I agree there comes a point when the QOL is so low that it is not worth taking medications like that. It is a very personal decision. I would encourage you to discuss your concerns with your doctor before stopping any medications.
I hope this helps.
5), but the medication became less effective and her blood pressure gets higher (up to 150/100 in the mornings and a little lower in the afternoons). Last week she was hospitalized in a foreign country. The doctors there said she is in critical condition. They did EKG and Echocardiogram on her and found she now has the following conditions:
1) Atrial Fibrillation.
2) Enlarged Left Atrium, Right Atrium and Right Ventricle.
My question is this, since the blood clot that caused the stroke was apparently caused by the heart problem, would not her now having a pacemaker prevent a recurrence of the atrial fibrillation? And IF your answer is yes, then why would she need to be on the blood thinner for the rest of our life?
The best treatment would be to correct the A-fib with digoxin or another specific anti-dysrrythmic or a pacemaker, but if this is not possible, prevention of blood clots is essential because, even a tiny one can cause a pulmonary embolism (clot in the lung) or a stroke. In atrial fibrillation the top chambers of the heart just quiver, while the bottom chambers (ventricles) keep beating, but in an irregular manner.
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