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[jesse-james]

hi everyone is anyone able to tell me what this means significant atrial fibrillation burden has also been noted at 47% it has come in letter from ep before husband had this pace maker fitted many thanks

[Goldfish_]

I think it's just the percentage of time spent in atrial fibrillation

[pottypete1]

I think it's the amount of scarring from a previous ablation has he had an ablation before?

Pete

[jesse-james in reply to pottypete1]

hes not had a ablation but in 2012 he did have a cardiac arrest because of a heart attack and it was a total heart block near or on the hearts natural pacemaker so it could be scarring from that

[pottypete1 in reply to jesse-james]

Best thing to do is ask the doctor

[BobD Volunteer]

I agree with Goldfish. What he is saying is that your husband has a lot of AF at 47% of the time. i e a burden.

[PeterWh]

I think that it would be useful to put the exact wording up here because I only found out a week ago that my AF is causing at least 30%, probably 40% circulation loss. That puts another dimension on percentages!!!

[Hidden]

My EP told me I had 85% AF at the time and he explained that was the percentage of time I was in AF.

[MarkySmith]

A quick check of the scientific literature revealed this: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...

So it looks like it is indeed a reference to % time in AF.