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Can SVT Ablation Stop AF?

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Just watched our fave cardiologist discuss AF in the young (under 60) and amongst other things he reports on a study that found when patients went for an AF ablation, if an SVT was found during preliminary electrophysiology and they ablated the SVT pathway instead of the AF - it stopped both SVT and the AF!

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Well it certainly didn’t for me! My first ablation was for SVT and they questioned if I had full blown Afib. I was back in hospital 6 months later for my second ablation for definite Afib. They managed to deal with half of my pulmonary veins in that op (51/2 hours) and then another 6 months went by when another ablation, also lasting 51/2 hours, cleared up the remaining rogue cells around the pulmonary veins.

That was exactly 3 years ago and I have been Afib free, as far as I can tell, ever since.

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