Mri results

[Best2]

Hi I’ve just received my mri results which say frequent ventricular ectopic beats plus mild Af !! Also borderline myopathy ! Worried sick and cardiologist just said don’t Worry can anyone tell me how serious these findings are thankyou

[BobD Volunteer]

Not very to be honest. Myopathy refers to weaking of the heart muscle due to the AFwhich I think most of us have to some extent. Borderline is self explanatory and means they don't think it is serious.

Ectopic means out of place so the ventricle contracts too soon before the atrium has passed any blood to it. These are the thumps or "missed beats" you get from time to time. Quite normal for everybody and considered benign. Yes they can be annoying when frequent but they won't kill you. Look up slow deep breathing which stops them pretty well for many of us. (breath with your stomach not you shoulders and slow down to less that six breaths a minute for at least five minutes.)

Mild AF? lucky you. Obviously you would prefer not to have it but it sounds like your AF burden is light and does not affect QOL to much.

Relax, these medical reports are gauranteed to spook you if you let them.

[Best2 in reply to BobD]

Thankyou so much for your reply , I’ve got more answers from this forum than I have from cardiologist!! He just said mri was abnormal then the report arrived today and I read these things ! It’s so shocking to read stuff you don’t understand so thanks again for this reassuring reply !

[Ppiman in reply to Best2]

I wouldn't blame the poor old doctors. Their lives have been so messed up with covid, and in some hospitals still are owing to staff shortages through shielding and the like.

The report is sent both to you and your GP these days. I don't know when that changed since it used to go only to the GP. The procedure, I suppose is still the same, though, which is to ask your GP to explain it.

You sound pretty healthy to me. The ectopic beats, as Bob says, are probably "normal" and "mild AF" is the best kind to have! (Mind you the effect on an individual can vary a great deal with some hardly knowing they have fibrillation, and others pretty much debilitated by it. I was in the latter camp, sadly).

Steve

[secondtry]

I wouldn't worry too much, it is a question of maximising your Quality of Life (QOL) with AF in the background. York Cardiology (Dr Sanjay Gupta) has done short videos on reducing ectopics, take your pick youtube.com/c/YorkCardiolog...