Mitral Valve no bargain Black Friday

Hey everyone, met up with my surgeon yesterday and had an echocardiogram for fun while I was there, as you do. Now, something that I had not known was if your mitral valve is a bit dodgy they might not be able to do an ablation. So after an hour of being echoed and listening to my heart beating away, it seems I rate a score of 2, with nil being ideal and anything over the 2 maybe requiring other treatment options. What this means is my odds of being a one treatment wonder kid are reduced and the possibility of further ablations increased. Black Friday indeed 123sonography.com/ebook/qua...

Gives some information on the matter if you find yourself sailing a similar boat.

[wilsond]

Oh not the best bargain day! At least now they know what they are looking at,there will be a plan made for treatment based on that.

Best wishes

[Hidden in reply to wilsond]

Thanks wilsond. I should here back from my surgeon tomorrow with her thoughts and a way forward. Take care.

[Buffafly]

Had a quick look at your reference, for me the main takeaway is that echocardiography is far from an exact science! Which is good news for anyone worried about their results 😊 I have mitral valve regurgitation but my cardiologist was quite dismissive, seems it is very common in women my age - 74. Having said that, valve disease is one of the risk factors for AF and my ablation failed after about two years. As my symptoms are generally not too extreme I have decided to pootle along as I am because I don't fancy having an ablation every couple of years and I have comorbidities which make the procedure more dangerous and a good outcome less likely. A younger, fitter person would probably disagree!

[Hidden in reply to Buffafly]

Thanks for the reply, yes everyone of us is different, for me I'm just a baby (60) and like yourself my cardiologist on my initial diagnosis gave me a shrug and told me I'm getting old and bits wear out!! No worries there then It's linkage to AF seems most probable in my case and given my intolerance to meds I'm still inclined to go down the ablation route and see where it takes me, being a younger fitter person and all that ;-)) Happy Pootling

[Buffafly in reply to Hidden]

Best wishes!

[cuore]

I don't know if my experience relates to you because I did not have mitral regurgitation. For my second ablation, alcohol was injected into the vein of marshall for peri-mitral atrial flutter.

[Hidden in reply to cuore]

Thanks for the reply, how long were you between ablations? I'm not very well informed on the finner points of these procedures and wonder why alcohol was used, as a cleaning agent or a vascular relaxer perhaps as I read that it the drains directly into the coronary sinus at the same end as the great cardiac vein, marking the origin of the sinus? Interesting. Take care out There.

[cuore in reply to Hidden]

I have had three ablations in Bordeaux, France for which I paid myself: July 3,2017; November 20, 2017, and May 27, 2019.

I had atrial flutter right near the mitral valve, so it was difficult to ablate using a radio frequency catheter, so my EP injected ethanol into the vein of Marshall which is right near the mitral valve to make the scar. At the time I had it done, the hospital had been using that procedure for only four months, so it was quite new.

[Hidden in reply to cuore]

Wow thats amazing, not sure just how my Mitral valve issue will effect the ablation, we will find out! I'm getting my treatment in Brest and fortunatly for me the costs are covered by the state and my mutuelle, having worked in France for the last fifteen years. All the best with recovery.