SVT post PM

Hey everyone,

just had my medtronic adapta implanted last Thursday and all is well with the bradycardardia but now I'm having recurrent (what feels like) SVT. I had SVT in the past which was ablated and only had a few episodes in the past 8 years but now I'm having it multiple times/day. I'm contacting my electrophysiologist tomorrow morning but was just wondering if anyone else had a similar situation.

thanks!

Bob

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by Tracey_E - 2009-01-11 08:01:44

Is it random or when you're moving around? If it's with activity, they may have rate response on and need to adjust it.

What was ablated? You can have a pm and still have svt because the ventricle is going to follow what the atria does. If your sinus node is still working, it can generate svt's and the pm will make the ventricle keep up up to your upper limit.

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by bobg - 2009-01-14 08:01:47

saw the pacer tech yesterday and he adjusted my ventricular setting (decreased the signal to prevent the atrium from picking it up and causing a loop tachy) which has decreased the frequency of the tachy episodes somewhat but it's still happening frequently.

The rate response is on but the tachy is an irregular rhythm (some AVNRT) even when at rest on occasion.

It's pretty frustrating...

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