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Can a cardiac electrophysiologist map PVCs when they are non-symptomatic?

I have dealt with PVCs and PACs since I was a kid. I am now 70 years old. Although several well-respected cardiologists have assured me--based on every diagnostic test you can imagine, including wearing a monitor for 30 days--that these arrhythmias are "normal" irregular beats, in recent years episodes come more often, last for hours or sometimes days and the frequency between the skipped beats are often every other or every fourth beat. Because I'm not always experiencing PVCs, a cardiac electrophysiologist tells me that an ablation cannot be performed because the mapping can only be completed during a period of time that the PVCs are actually happening. These irregular beats drive me absolutely insane. I've tried various medications but at best, they help reduce the occurrences. Given this information, do I have any viable options?

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  • 4 years ago

    It's not that the PVCs are "non-symptomatic" that makes it hard to map them, what the doc was saying is that the PVCs have to be actually happening for them to be mapped. In other words, you can't map something that's not there.

    A cardiologist SHOULD be able to minimize them with something in their arsenal

    Source(s): PA
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