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What Is The Medication Success Rate For Atrial Fibrillation? - Dr. deGuzman (VIDEO)

By Dr. Brian deGuzman Expert August 14, 2008 - 2:37pm
 
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Listen to Dr. deGuzman discuss the success rate of drug therapy with atrial fibrillation.

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Dr. deGuzman:

Drug therapy is successful in controlling the rate of transmission to the ventricles, but overall it is not very effective. About 40% to 60% of patients who are on medical therapy for atrial fibrillation ultimately failed that therapy and required other forms of therapy, either electrical types of therapy with cardioversion, or pacemaker implantation, or a catheter ablation, or even surgical procedures to cure the atrial fibrillation. So, overall, it is not very effective.

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