More on Chronic Lone AF and the Maze Operation

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Posted by Osman M. Nassar on August 04, 2001 at 06:21:18:

Thank you Ed, Scott, and Steve for sharing you Maze Operation Experience with me.
Rob, I hope you post all of the other more cultural sites , and shopping sites for my wife, to hit at Cleveland.
I just wanted to share with you my thoughts about the AF issue. I am an Electrical Engineering Consultant, who have electrical signals malfunction in his Heart, and is very frustrated because he cannot understand the cause of the problem, or find an easy solution to fix it.
After I got sick and was diagnosed with Lone AF, which later on become chronic, I read every piece of information I can get my hands on the subject. I also looked at the problem from the engineering point of view, and discovered how little the Medical Profession knows about the human body in general and the heart/brain interactions in particular.
Very little is know about the origin, the cause and hence the cure of Lone AF. Even the medical terminology "Lone", means of "Unknown" origin.
Lone AF is generally associated with healthy individuals, most of whom are Athletics (specially, marathon runners as Ed, and even basket ball players as Hakem Ajwan of the Houston Rockets). Is the problem related to blood chemical unbalance caused by loss of minerals due to excessive sweating? Or is it related to heart overload condition resulted from the excessive use of the heart mussels ?. No one knows.
Also, there seems to be a correlation between stress and the initiation of AF. This points to the importance of brain/heart relation, or simply stated on the impact of the nerve system on the heart function.
However, rather than find the origin of the problem to find the practical solution, the medical profession treated the symptom instead. They come up with the MAZE operation. A Major surgery, that uses the Shotgun approach to cover all the possible causes of the problem.
After waiting for the past 4 to 5 years for a break-though in the catheter ablation technique, I realized that the progress is very slow because the medical profession has a long way to go before they really understand the real cause of Lone AF.

As a result, I have decided to go for the Maze operation mainly because of the high rate of success and the permanent cure.
My other reason to performing the MAZE is the improvement in the quality of life, away from being dependant for the rest of my life on a daily medication doze that has unknown long term side effects.


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