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Pericarditis and angiogram Pericarditis and angiogram My husband cardiologist ordered angiogram for my husband constrictive pericarditis. I don't understand why those are related? Anyone can help me on that? Thank a lot.

My husband had a mitral valve repair with maze surgery on March 3, 2008. On his first echo on Apr 15, 2008 after the surgery, he was diagnosed with pericardial effusion. He took a methyPrednisone pack for one week, but no improvement. Then he started prednisone from 40mg, decreased dose by...

Thanks a lot for all your replies. My husband didn't have that much symptom and no fever at all. When we saw the cardiologist 6 weeks post surgery, he was nervous and kept ask my husband to do deep breath and asked if it was hurt. It might be severe on the ECHO, that was why he prescribe...

My husband had a mitral valve repair surgery 8 weeks ago. He had moderate pericardial effusion detected by a ECHO test 2 weeks ago and was prescribed methylprednisolone for 6 days from 24mg stepping down to 4mg. He had an ECHO again after 11 days, the fluid only decreased a little. He still...

My husband had my mitral valve repaired by Dr Laks last month. We travel 130miles one way to UCLA. With traffic, sometimes it took more than 3 hours one way. But it really worth it. Dr Laks did a wonderful job. Our cardiologist said today the valve was repaired perfect after he saw the...

My husband just had a mitral valve repair and Maze surgery. He was discharged from the hospital with only baby aspirin. He took Plavix and regular aspirin at the hospital for 4 days, but he got a lot of bruises. He never had coumadin at the hospital. Is it normal to only take baby aspirin...

Hi Al, Wayne, Magic8ball, and Paula, Thank you for all your replies. They are very encouraging. I appreciated very much. Dong

I am new to this site and have lots of questions. I have mitral regurgitation and need a MV repair surgery. I met two surgeons locally. Both of them said it would be an easy repair. But they gave me a repair rate at 90% and 95%. Is there any surgeon will give 100% repair success rate? The...