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I thought I had the "luxury" of taking my time, going out-of-state to meet with surgeons before deciding on whether to use a local surgeon and had planned on doing the surgery the end of October or beginning of November. That all changed after meeting with both Dr. Mailaise and Dr. McCarthy at...

Thanks everyone. A lot of interesting points for me to consider! I will see how I feel about the local doctor after I meet him and then I guess I will decide if I still want to go to Mayo.

I am in the Chicago suburbs and have a meeting with Dr. Malaisrie at Northwestern Aug. 30th. I was going to set up a meeting with Dr. Schaff at Mayo, too, but am now torn about going out of state for my aortic valve replacement. I was told by someone (and confirmed by my cardiologist) that if...

I have severe aortic stenosis and my cardiologist and I decided that I should go ahead and have my aortic valve replacement surgery in the fall since I will need it within a year. I have only gotten a little worse in 6 months (4.2 in Dec and 4.3 now) and, while I have shortness of breath at...

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm still trying to decide what to do but it looks like I will try to schedule my surgery either end of October or beginning of November.I am waiting for my cardiologist to get back to me with names of surgeons at Cleveland and Mayo and then I will arrange to go...

I'm meeting with my cardiologist Monday to discuss scheduling my aortic valve replacement surgery for the fall. My son had his OHS by Dr. McCarthy at Northwestern in the spring. We were very pleased with Dr. McCarthy and he had a fantastic recovery but we were not happy with the care he received...

Let me introduce myself. I have been reading this forum for a few months and it looks like I will have my aortic valve replaced in the fall. I was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis last summer. Surprise! Didn't know I had a heart murmur. My measurements in December were valve at .09 with 4.2...