June 7, 2010

Deja vu, all over again.

One of these pacing studies needs to work soon - I'm running out of ideas for post titles about them.

Pacing study #4 is scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 8 a.m. Since the failed attempt on Sunday, Ayden has been getting increased doses of both anti-SVT medications. The electrophysiologist believes that the medications are having at least a partial effect at this point. He believes the meds have counteracted the extra electrical pathway (this is Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome) in Ayden's heart that sends the signal down, but he has not yet found the right drug cocktail to stop what I understand to be a looping signal that comes back up (I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of this, as you can probably guess). Dr. Fish, by all accounts one of the best doctors in this field, says the difficulty in figuring out how to treat Ayden's arrhythmia is not all that out of the ordinary, which makes me feel a lot better about the whole thing. I'm glad to know that his case is not a statistical outlier.

At any rate, we'll see what (hopefully doesn't) happen tomorrow.

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