Blackouts

Levi has blacked out twice in the past month.  Doctors say the causes could be his erratic heart rate or rejection.  They did a heart cath and a heart biopsy this evening.  These tests will tell if rejection is occurring.  They have looked at his heart with an ECHO and it looks good so they don't believe rejection is the cause.  

The other option could be the erratic heartbeat.  The electrophysiologist explained that his heart rate gets very high then pauses before dropping.  It is possible that the pause may be long enough that he passes out.  The plan is to perform another ablation next week.  Since the extra heartbeats sometimes disappear when they anesthetize  Levi, they will only slightly sedate him and hope to find the problem and ablate it.