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What Casues Swelling In The Temple While Suffering From Atrial Fibrillation?

ok I have afib also parosymal afib just had my second ablasion. anyway I m taking atorvastantin for plague in my right leg well last week I experienced tightening in my left side temple then again today same place but I now have a swollen area in my righ temple
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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since you have dyslipidemia and there is history of atrial fibrillation and plaque in arteries. there is huge possibility of hardening of temporal arteries on both sides due to deposition of atherosclerotic plaques.
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What Casues Swelling In The Temple While Suffering From Atrial Fibrillation?

since you have dyslipidemia and there is history of atrial fibrillation and plaque in arteries. there is huge possibility of hardening of temporal arteries on both sides due to deposition of atherosclerotic plaques.