They say she will eventually go afib again. If the heart's main pumping chamber suffers from years of a dysfunctional valve and or other cardiac disease then the diagnosis is heart failure and this requires medications, surgery if indicated, and when all else fails, transplant. Difficult to treat a.fib is not a reason to transplant, and amiodarone does not have bad side effects in all patients on it, not even in most patients taking it. I hope this information is useful.
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