{"id":20503,"date":"2016-04-25T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T01:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=20503"},"modified":"2024-11-13T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:43:59","slug":"atrial-fibrillation-mitral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2016\/04\/25\/atrial-fibrillation-mitral\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Q&#038;A: Should Atrial Fibrillation Get Treated During Heart Valve Surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t know&#8230; Many\u00a0patients with heart valve disease have atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat. According to reports, up to 35% of patients with valvular defects are more likely to have AFib. For this reason, I really appreciated\u00a0Anita&#8217;s question, &#8220;Adam &#8211; Can anyone having heart\u00a0valve surgery be a candidate for corrective atrial fibrillation treatment?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To answer this very important question, I tracked down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Steven-Bolling-Ann+Arbor-Michigan.php\">Dr. Steve Bolling<\/a>, a leading heart\u00a0valve surgeon at the University of Michigan. \u00a0So you know, Dr. Bolling has successfully treated many\u00a0patients in our community including Linda Comai, Jeff Adams and George Parish. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Dr. Bolling shared with me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5uVKdF3nhos\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Anita for her question. And, a special thanks to Dr. Steve Bolling for sharing his clinical expertise and research with our patient community.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Steven-Bolling-Ann+Arbor-Michigan.php\">See Dr. Bolling&#8217;s Interactive Surgeon Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation\/\">Discover the Atrial Fibrillation &amp; Heart Valve Patient Education Center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>P.S. For the hearing impaired members of our community, please find below a written transcript of my interview with Dr. Bolling.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Hi everybody, it\u2019s Adam. We\u2019re back at the Heart Valve Summit and we\u2019re answering your questions. I\u2019m thrilled to be here with Dr. Steven Bolling from the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steven Bolling: Adam thanks for having me.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: \u00a0Great to have you. We\u2019re answering Anita\u2019s question. She writes in, &#8220;Can anyone who is having mitral valve surgery and tricuspid valve surgery be a candidate for corrective atrial fibrillation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steven Bolling: That\u2019s a good question, Adam. Anita, here is the answer to your question. You\u2019re there, you\u2019re having mitral valve surgery, you\u2019re having tricuspid valve fixed and you\u2019ve had a history, somehow, of atrial fibrillation \u2013 either intermittently paroxysmal or chronic atrial fibrillation. Your surgeon should do something to fix that atrial fibrillation. I\u2019m the surgeon \u2013 if I\u2019m looking at the mitral valve, I should do something to fix that atrial fibrillation. There is, as you know, a very recent study of randomized prospective study looking just at that. If a surgeon is there inside the left atrium doing mitral valve surgery and Anita, or someone else, you have a history of atrial fibrillation we need to fix it. We need to take the left atrial appendage off and we need to do something for that atrial fibrillation. Your long-term rate of staying out atrial fibrillation is probably twice as high if we do something. I need to do something when I\u2019m there.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: \u00a0Dr. Bolling, as always, thanks so much for your help and care of the patients in our community.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steven Bolling: Adam thanks for having me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atrial-fibrillation-afib"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39666,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions\/39666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}