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One of the concerns about a-fib (and why it should be taken seriously) is that it can lead to strokes. Blood likes to flow in a laminar fashion. When it doesn't--whether through a leaky mitral valve, a hole in between chambers of the heart, vegetations/growths hanging off the walls/valves of the heart, or the irregular beating of a heart such as in a-fib--then the blood tumbles. It loses that laminar flow. Then blood may form clots. Those clots may then flow "downstream" and lodge in smaller blood vessels such as in the brain, leading to a stroke.
Best of luck, Guy (and the rest of you with it).
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