You are in Member Communities . Just wanted to pop in here and give you some information. Never give up the cardiac-ship.
Hope is always out there somewhere.
The procedure is so much faster than RFA as well. According to Dr. Natale, the limited number of patients who have undergone this procedure in the United States, so far, most of them, have either been cured or have improved to the point where drugs are once again effective. According to the director of the Cadiovascular Institute and Arrhythmia Service at Atlantic Health System in Passaic, N.J., another approach that is good for virtually every AF patient is to keep the heart in rhythm with a pacemaker device that has dual site atrial pacing which has an extra lead to control the left side of the heart where AF often originates. Strategic placement of incisions in both atria stops the formation and the conduction of errant electrical impulses and channels the normal electrical impulse in one direction from the top of the heart to the bottom. Scar tissue generated by the incisions permanently blocks the abnormal paths of the electrical impulses that cause AF, thus eradicating the arrhythmia.