From:
Sandra Fox
Date: 2005-03-26 18:11:20 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] PVC Heart condition
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <20050327015013.147DE37F43@sitemail.everyone.net>
Bigeminy is an expression of any abnormal rhythm. With ventricular bigeminy there is a PVC every other beat. Trigeminy is every third beat, etc. With bigeminy, the result is the heart is only really pushing out blood with every other beat, which makes makes the patient feel lousy.
Digoxin is a wonderful drug. It's old, but very effective. Although it's usually used with congestive heart failure and conduction problems above the ventricles it causes the heart to beat slower and "smooths" out some of the ventricular arrhythmias as well. If Meltdown threw a clot she most likely had atrial problems as well which allowed blood to pool and clot in the heart.
Glad this thread is helpful.
--- sukiec@optonline.net wrote:
From: sukiec@optonline.net
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
I so appreciate this conversation. It is teaching me a lot.
In what ways does this differ from venticular bigemini? We had one (Meltdown) who had that problem many years ago. The one thing that controlled her rhythm marvelously was Digoxin, though other meds were tried first, including Enacard starting when it was still experimental. She went from someone who was expected to die at any time to someone who lived something like a year to a year and a half before she began throwing clots to the point where one of those required a mercy shot.
End of ferrethealth Digest
***********************************