1. Yes
2. IF the focus can be identified, ablation would be a reasonable course of action.
Thankyou for the quick response. I have one other question that may be hard to answer: The fact that my atrial tach occurs only when I swallow - does that make it all the more likely that:
a) it will be easier to identify and
b) it would be a single focus and thus easier to ablate than a more complex multi-focus.
Sorry I have one other question. Can atrial tach result from other problems such as AVNRT, WPW etc. It seems my history shows absolutely no ventricular problems only SVT which occassionally degenerates into afib (again always after I swallow, which triggers the atrial tach on a regular basis).
Thankyou again.
Peter
IF you can in fact reproduce your tachycardia during the EP study, that would make identifying it and ablating it much easier. There are other mechanisms of atrial tachycardia generation and atrial fibrillation generation that exist and coexist. Many atrial tachycardia types can be ablated. Atrial fib, unless it is in fact triggered in the manner you describe, does not lend itself well to ablation.