Ablation

Garry or anyone: Any ideas about treating a 62 year old male who was treated for atrial fibrillation with two ablation procedures? With a pretty high dose of diltiazem, digoxin and Coumadin, he is in normal sinus rhythm and his rate is good. For a few months, he has had some shortness of breath, coughing, a few episodes of congestive heart failure responsive to diuretics, severe fatigue. A special CT scan of chest yesterday showed evidence of severe pulmonary stenosis of 1 of the 2 veins from one lung and partial pulmonary stenosis from the same lung in the other vein (Pulmonary stenosis is becoming a more recognized complication of the ablation procedures which involve ablation in the pulmonary veins). Conventional cardiologist now suggesting consideration of dilation and or stent. Anyone have any ideas?

Dear Doctor:
This is a wake up call for me as I have kept every patient away from ABLATION procedures without even knowing about this complication. I record my consultations and tell patients that I do not like the benefit-risk ratio of this invasive procedure. So far, with the fact that it is nearly impossible to die of a clot with our oral chelation and Nattokinase, I have kept many patients alive and happy. Then I work with them to identify stressors on the conduction system, from heavy metals to local ischemia to mineral imbalances and FOOD SENSITIVITIES (THE PULSE TEST by Arthur COCO at Columbia Presbyterian, head of the Allergy Department, gets patients to see there is a correlation between food stressors and heart problems). Then with HEART rate variability I can see what the Autonomic Nervous system is doing and with HEEL HOMEOPATHICS I am able to help rebalance sympathetic/parasympathetic.

I say all of this because I hope that this patient can DO THIS KIND of work before he lets anyone stent him as that is going to push him back into the problems that the ablation did NOT CURE! He needs to look at their proposed approach to dealing with this complication as if it was a marathon. He needs to prepare for it by doing the work that IF it had been done in the first place, in my experience, would have eliminated the need for the ablation. It is not too late to get into these issues.

Sincerely,
Garry F. Gordon, MD,DO,MD(H)

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