Regarding your response to the poster below about his/her 50 day long atrial fib episode - our father is going through something similar. He has a CHADS score of one (only because they suspect a partially clogged artery but it’s one of those arteries in the back of the heart so they are not positive if it’s the artery or something in the diaphragm that’s showing up on the nuclear stress test – you’re right, we are confused also with this).
Here’s the question we are facing now, even though he has no bad symptoms (pulse about 80’ish), he’s approaching his 90th day of being in afib. What do you think of cardioversion or using something like flec to try to get him back to sinus rhythm? The cardiologist said it’s our decision and that he would have no problem with having him stay in afib. Doing nothing doesn’t sound right to us (other than a daily aspirin with metoprolol and a statin). Our father would rather do nothing more. Your opinion?