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A transthoracic echocardiogram will show any clots formed on the valve, so your standard ultrasound

Hi Angie, Iv only had AVR once so far but there are muliple members on here that have had 2-3+ surgeries. I had my sternum wires out after 11 months as they caused alot of pain and stuck up, it was a routine procedure which I would recommend to anyone with wire issues, so hope yours can be...

Welcome Haha wait till you go into theatre prep then, I remember lying on the bed starkers while two nurses did the full hair cut neck to ankles.. clucking bell Yep the valve noise sux a bit but whats the alternative, the young cardiolgy registrar I saw last week could hear it from a few metres...

I feel for you immensely and can only hope things improve for your wife. I know how scary bleeding and worrying about clots happening is when its in front of you. My father who also has a mechanical valve had carotid endartardectomy surgery last month after permanently losing sight in one eye...

I think I recall reading somewhere calcium deposits won’t form or adhere to the foldax biopolymer material, similar to calcium not adhering to pyrolitic carbon in a standard mechanical valve.

https://www.dicardiology.com/content/foldax-gets-20-million-finance-innovative-heart-valve-technology

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Stumbled across this just now while googling if ibruprofen is linked to dementia, ibruprofen was mentioned today when it was suggested by a young cardiologist registrar as I have costochondritis, until I reminded him Im on warfarin...

Yep, I know a local guy who got endo due to his teeth and now has a mechanical valve, he’s intellectualy handicapped and his teeth must have been absolutely shot and uncared for as they ripped them all out rather than risk a reoccurrance. Ive also read of people getting endo from mosquito bites...

I think the risk of endo from a dental cleaning is very small to start with for valvers and non valvers alike, I believe the recomendations for dental premedding for heart patients were relaxed/changed/found to be unnessary a few years back and valvers are about the only ones recomended for the...

I like to reference this site, its written by a surgeon and is an easy read for the layman- https://badaorta.com/double-trouble-bicuspid-aortic-valve-bav/

Marevan-

Dont think thats quite right on the colours denoting the strength always being the same, I use Marevan warfarin and brown/tan is 1mg, blue is 3mg and pink is 5mg, unlike this picture I came across, from what I read the above is a US standardisation but not the rest of us I guess...

And details of the valve material itself https://foldax.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Morphology-Surface-Properties-of-High-Strength-SiPUU-Developed-for-Heart-Valve-Application-0218.pdf

Latest updates on the Foldax valve if anyones interested https://foldax.com/news/

Read this and it seems to suggest its a higher dose rather than a high inr. “their blood levels of the medication were frequently too high” #fakenews https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/popular-afib-heart-drug-warfarin-linked-to-dementia-risk/ Which only adds fuel to the misinformed concerns imo of...

Thats great, incidently my father has the same model St Jude as you, he has a 25A-101 implanted in 1984

And while I think about it why does it have to be tissue VERSUS mechanical, its not a competion, just options for treatment of which path to go down Seems people have to create a good guy and bad guy, like cowboys and indians. A sh*t sandwhich still tastes like sh*t if you use white bread or...

No bias here for the tissue valvers but don’t forget the toll that having your chest cut and cranked open has, my chest I wouldn’t say is 100% so I wouldn’t willingly set myself up for multiple 2, 3... 4 surgeries.. Yep the ticking is an ***, as for warfarin I would quite happily take warfarin...

If I take Tylenol ( we call it Paracetamol here) for 3-4 days it definately raises my INR, but as a one off dose for say a headache theres no effect on my INR. Last time I took paracetamol was for pain after a filling and it definately took the edge off.