Does ablation stop pvc’s. Also. Is there an age you might be too old for it ??

[Afibing]

PVC and ablation

[Gwersey]

I've tried looking for a post that someone put on here about 2 months ago, but can't find it. If you want to try searching for it, it's a leaflet about Birmingham Queen Elizabeth hospital and ablation for ectopic beats. You may have to try several typing combinations to find it but worth the search.

[bantam12 in reply to Gwersey]

uhb.nhs.uk/Downloads/pdf/Pi...

[BobD Volunteer]

Probably not and probably not.

[jennydog]

Liverpool don't do ablations after the age of 80.

[EPnerd]

PVCs are premature Ventricular complexes. If they come from a single place in the ventricle and are frequent enough they can be targeted and ablated. There are no official age “limits” it would be discriminatory if there were but depends on your electrophysiologist and your general state of health.

[Enjoy]

I had my ablation exactly three years ago. Was in hospital recovering on my 82nd birthday. I was 85 on Friday. Feeling really good apart from extreme breathlessness.

[Hidden]

Ablation can definitely stop PVC's and I am 63so I don't think there is an age limit. Although in my case my ticket was going ballistic while on the cardiologists couch so he immediately cancelled all of his next appointments and set up the theatre for an ablation procedure. But I was left in the prep room for 2 hours while they got everything ready and when they put the catheter into my heart I was so relaxed that I didn't have a single ectopic while I was there so I was devastated.

These days I have mine under control with a single 400mg Magnesium Citrate every day and a 5mg Escitalopram which is a non-addictive anti depressant which was prescribed by my surgeon.

Meanwhile here is what I know about PVC's.....

The frightening thump that we all think is the heart stopping and starting is the Premature Ventricular Contraction, or Ventricular Ectopic Beat. Instead of your heart beating 1.......2.......3 we get 1..2..............3. The "2" is the ectopic beat which could come from your natural pacemaker but might also come from somewhere else in your heart. It's just earlier than it should be. When premature beat 2 comes, the heart hasn't yet filled with blood after number one has pumped its load out, so we don't actually feel beat number 2. But then the heart fills up with extra blood in the gap between 2 and 3 and gives a powerful beat to pump the extra blood out. That's the thump we all feel. And the gap is when we all think our hearts have stopped. I have had this for 45 years and I'm still alive. I had 23,000 one day. I'm not going to die of this and nor are you. Next time you are having a bad time take a dose of antacid (I use Gaviscon) and sit upright for a while. It works wonders for me. Cliff in Australia.

[Afibing in reply to Hidden]

Thanks to all replies. Especially to Cliffo23😀