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Posted by Roger Meyer on September 26, 2002 at 09:19:22:

My history is contained in the archive here, but briefly, I had the Maze August 2001, which went well but was followed by complications while recovering in the hospital. I did not leave the hospital in NSR, but left in junctional rhythm. I continued in junctional for nearly a year. Then suddenly, my rhythm went whacky, and I had to have a pacer implanted...single lead....to the ventrical...and am paced in junctional. It was determined that I did not have sufficient conductive tissue in the atrium (probably due to over 25 years in a-fib) to receive a lead for the atrium.

My question is whether since I eventually received a pacer, and am paced in junctional, did the Maze really help me? I have asked my cardiologist, and as I recall, he said I needed the Maze, but I am confused since my rhythm is not starting from the atrium or the atrial node, but from the node at the junction. Thus the question, did the Maze treatment to the atrium really help me?

This is probably too complicated a question to post, but here is a go at it. I am not normally a person that goes back to things in the past, but this has been a life-impacting series of events since the Maze and it is bugging me, especially when I reflect on the impact my continuing ordeal has on my family.

Thanks for your comments.


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