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Great report, Heidi, and +1 to all the other comments. There's another current thread now on post-op fevers (Blood Cultures Post-Op), and the posts there suggest that it's common. OHS =~ getting hit by a truck, after all!

OK you may be right. For sure the operable patients in the PARTNERS trial were just barely operable -- i.e. high risk with multiple comorbidities. That group doesn't have 1% op risk. . .

I went straight from a long and delayed Cardio Rehab course to my return to competitive volleyball (including 2-on-2 beach), all around 1 yr post-op. Just before that, the rehab hospital gave me a stress cardio test c/w CO2 breathing tube. I asked them to push me harder than they normally would...

I posted recently about my BE false alarm -- yup, still seems false. Most investigations of suspected BE wouldn't even include histopathology, so your team is investigating a concern after all the "normal" tests came up clear. I think that should be reassuring. Do you know what the...

I don't think those numbers are just for inoperable patients, but for the mix of patients (in UK and France) who got the procedure. I think.

New note and link at http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?39005-TAVR-vs-AVR&p=526615#post526615 .

And this just in, suggesting that TAVI might NOT be ready for prime time for operable patients -- partly because it seems to be much more $$$ than OHS/AVR (to my great surprise -- startup or novelty costs??)...

Interesting. We've had earlier discussions about (a) what happens to the old valve and (b) whether this could be done more than once to the same patient. The article seems to answer those questions. Is this "cow valve" the Sapien valve that was the first one in North American trials? I'm...

I went from Toronto to Whistler BC for a ski week ~8 weeks after a full sternotomy (details below) and skied 6 days (tho' gently with lots of stops to check my HR monitor and wait for my HR to recover some), and had fun throughout. We did UPS our skis and boots, though we checked our monster...

BTW, when I quizzed the Echo-cardiogram tech about my effective Aortic area, he said it looked like more than 1.5 sq. cm. That may sound wimpy to most of you folks, but mine's been more like 1.3 max since it was implanted, which is one of the main clouds in my sky. When my cardiologist phoned on...

I think I was told only 8 weeks for general tissue healing and bone healing (including the sternum), and I think I felt like I kept to that schedule. Getting my heart to remodel and get back to its new normal (virtually = its old normal) took WAY longer, of course, and a few months of Cardio...

Still feeling fine, UTI gradually resolving I think. Popping pills for about another week. Went for an echo at my cardiologist's office Friday, got a call from him today = Sunday(!). Nothing special about the echo, but he wouldn't expect to see anything on a normal echo cardiogram "unless you...

OK, so I've been somewhat reassured about the BE, though there's still a small risk. Turns out I've got both a UTI and a blood infection, both of them with e. coli. That's a huge personal "ewww", but a relief because e.coli doesn't usually love to munch on heart valves, though it occasionally...

Thanks, Lyn. ER called me again today to check that I'm still feeling better (Yup!) and to tell me to make appointments with my GP and my Cardiologist ASAP. And if the Cardiologist can't get me an echo ASAP, the GP can send me to an Ultrasound lab for it. (My cardiologist hires outside...

Is Warfarin a K2 inhibitor/antagonist as well as a K1 inhibitor/antagonist? If not, then K2 shouldn't affect INR. I thought the logic of K2 supplementation was that it's Good For You and especially Good For Us. And that the logic of K1 supplementation was basically that it's easier to balance a...

Thanks, all. Made it back to the ER this afternoon (but this time by bicycle) with the name of the Doctor I was to consult with, and to give another blood sample. I made it through the magic doors relatively quickly, into the Rapid Assessment Waiting Room. Not so rapid for me. While I was there...

I've had a nagging "Summer Cold" -- post-nasal drip and lots of coughing, both dry and "productive" -- for maybe MONTHS this summer. Self-medicating with this and that, bicycling and sailing, living my life normally except for the coughing and occasional spewing. Saturday Night, after a long day...

+1 to what EVERYBODY said! :) I was competing at a pretty high level (moderately high skill, very high exertion) at court and beach volleyball for years after my BAV was diagnosed. First semi-annual echos, then annual, then back to semi-annual as the numbers got worse. About a year pre-AVR, I...

Not one of my problems, but it's common enough to have a name: "White-Coat Hypertension"!

As others said above, stool blood that LOOKS like blood is not especially scary, usually caused by local irritations like hemorrhoids. Many of us had some trouble regaining normal regularity and "texture" after OHS, and it's tough to be an *** when passing rocky stools. Dietary fiber (soluble...