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Hi, Lucker. I just read back at a few of your posts… looks like you have been in the waiting room a long time. Best of luck to you on your journey. I wonder if you have a source for that? I am not asking to call you out in any way – I am genuinely curious. I wonder about things like the...

Thanks, Lucker, happy to have it behind me. I had all the symptoms listed here except chest pain. All resolved after surgery. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24396-aortic-regurgitation#symptoms-and-causes May I ask your interest in asking?

Hi, Survived03. I am not sure what I said that indicates that I am not in fact living my life and moving on. In fact, I said the opposite! I haven't been online much, and thought I should return out of gratitude for the pointers to research papers I had not found on my own (and a few other...

I really appreciated that Henrik Lundqvist documentary. He also had Eric Roselli from the Cleveland Clinic on his podcast: He seems like he went through it – cardioversion after surgery, pericarditis. I also read he has a deal with some pharmaceutical company to raise awareness of recurrent...

Hi. I appreciate people responding to me when I first came here. I did take time and read a bunch of papers, but didn't have time to make my way back here. I didn't see that many people with bicuspid aortic valve repairs on this forum — maybe I didn't look hard enough, though. Before surgery, I...

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Wow, that’s nuts. I hope you will feel better than ever with your new valve, once you are fully recovered.

Thanks for the pointer, @sam. They also lump calcification with fibrosis, the latter term being one I am not familiar with in this context.

thanks for the clarification! cheers to life!!

thank you! i am very grateful for you sharing your experience! i hope so!!

@Survived03, thank you so much for sharing your experience. It is helpful for me to have someone’s real life experience vs probabilities and statistics. I have a question about calcification / stenosis of your repaired valve — the stenosis occured even with little calcification? Do you know the...

Thank you Tom. So far so good and I am optimistic about the future :)

Last year, at age 55, I had BAV repair (type 1) + annulus stabilization + aortic replacement. I am still learning about it. From what I have read / heard, the benefits of repair are - likely longer freedom of reoperation compared to bioprosthetic - better quality of life (no drugs /...

Thanks. I am just trying to learn why repairs fail eventually. It’s good to know that yours lasted so long.

Thank you for the welcome! May I ask the reason was for your valve’s failure?

I just learned of this community. Hello! I am 56F. Around this time last year, I learned I had a moderately leaky bicuspid aortic valve and a less moderate aortic aneurysm. My leaflets were in good shape — no calcification. My surgeon repaired my valve, stabilized my annulus, and replaced the...