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Re:Heading to a cardiologist by rootusrootus on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:04PM (#18638274)
That seems very anecdotal. For some people the first symptom of their Afib will be sudden death. That it doesn't present for everyone that way does not make it trivial.

Also, an electrophysiologist IS a cardiologist, with an additional couple years of specialization. Ablations are still considered invasive surgery and they do carry some risks.

Now if you told me PVCs are not scary, I'd probably agree. I get 5K-30K of them every day, depending on some factors. Definitely not up there with Afib.

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Re:Heading to a cardiologist by ghufran_syed on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:43PM (#18638439)
"first symptom of their Afib will be sudden death" - citation?

It's clearly possible, as is the risk of death from pulmonary embolism after flying on a plane - but that doesn't mean that we should screen all flyers for pulmonary embolism.

This site has a useful risk calculator for risk of complications of a-fib: http://www.zunis.org/FHS%20Afib%20Risk%20Calculator.htm

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