Electrophysiologist Dr. Gery Tomassoni
KEITH YARBER: Ready for a better year,
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ate last year, when Keith Yarber was approached about being the American Heart Association’s 2018-2019 Heart Ball honoree, he assumed all of his heart issues were behind him.
For most of 2018, Yarber had no energy, was short of breath and missed work, something that the founder of TOP Marketing Group rarely did. He chronicled much of his troubling health history in the January 2019 issue of TOPS in Lexington. The high points:
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Double bypass heart surgery at age 44
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A pacemaker and stents a few years later
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Diagnosis of sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that attacked his lungs and has the potential to attack other organs
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His pacemaker was replaced with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) that monitors his heartbeat and would shock his heart if it detected irregular heart rhythms
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An ablation, a procedure in which energy is used to destroy tissue causing atrial flutter, an abnormal rhythm
TOPS in Lexington | February 2019
Cardiologist Dr. Hal Skinner
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