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Heart Ablation For An Arrhythmia, Right Diaphragm Motion Less. What Can Be Done?
Just had a heart ablation for an arithmia and the doctor used a balloon and filled it with liquid nitrogen to make a scar to stop the fluttering heart arithima issue but she froze my nerve to the right diaphram so the right diaphram is not moving I was told 4 to 8 weeks to heal the nerve and have the diaphram start working again yes no ?? causing me huge problems sleeping
Tue, 13 Aug 2013
sometimes there is a transient injury to the phrenic nerve while doing such an ablation surgery however the nerve should start working again
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