Dr. Shukla Explains How Atrial Fibrillation is Treated
Persistent AFib does not convert back to normal rhythm on its own. Medical treatment is needed to stop the AFib.
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How Is Atrial Fibrillation Treated?
Treatment for AF depends greatly upon you and your symptoms, how long you have atrial fibrillation and in what stage the atrial fibrillation is in. There are several important features to atrial fibrillation that are important to address:
1. How fast is your atrial fibrillation going? Generally a 24- hour monitor is placed to understand how well your drug therapy is working.
2. How far along is your atrial fibrillation: Curative treatment options are available for the treatment of atrial fibrillation however, this will be determined by a number of issues included in the work-up.
3. How healthy are you otherwise? While all these treatment regimens are available you should be healthy enough to undergo these therapies. In other words the treatment regimen needs to be customized to you.
4. What is your stroke risk? We know that patients with atrial fibrillation are at risk for strokes, however treatment for the prevention of stroke patients maybe on coumadin.
