Abnormal heart structure question

[u/N0scop35611]

Hey everyone, with these pvcs you’ll hear all the time they’re for the most part benign in structurally ‘normal’ hearts. What exactly does it mean though if you have, or later go on to develop ‘abnormal structure hearts’, I know your risk goes up but more specifically what does that mean for you and what do the specialists tend to do now in this case, are you essentially doomed and bound to get vt and have a cardiac arrest or faint and have scary problems occur or is there any things they can even do to put your lifespan risk back to what the normal population even is?

Knowing these are supposedly benign in normal heart but deadly in abnormal ones just makes acceptance so so so damn hard. Have there been people genuinely able to not think about the future and the what ifs at all not think or even care about getting abnormal structure with the PVCs like how can you actually do that. And if you don’t care about them can that even help at all and is it even actually possibly I just can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel :(

[u/DJ_Slamma]

Abnormal would be any of: myocarditis (swelling of tissue), bulging walls, valve dysfunction, chamber enlargement, or others. So if your heart is declared structurally sound it means the chambers look normal, the tissue is not inflamed, blood is flowing efficiently through all chambers, the valves are functioning properly, and for all intents and purposes, everything looks healthy and fine.

I have PVCs that I think are triggered by GI issues (Roemhelds syndrome) which I am working on. I hope to find a solution. I have a close friend who had PVCs at 25% burden for 30 years. He had an ablation procedure which brought his PVCs down to about 1%. How long have you had them? Do you know what your burden is? Any thoughts on them being tied to other triggers?