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Sorry you have to deal with this, it sounds miserable. First I am NOT an expert or even pretending to be, and i havent really looked into things like bridging the past couple years, so may be out dated BUT... I would call your cardiologist and who ever is in charge of your Coum management. I...

At your age, either choice would be good, with the odds very high you will live a long happy life. So since that is the case, I would go w/ my gut, do you feel more at peace when you think of one set of risks against the other? The other option and something many people do anyway when having a...

I am sorry to hear this. Thankfully your brain CT is sill good, I can only imagine how nervous you must have been waiting for the results. Hopefully now that the bleeding stopped things will start getting better. What a miserable week, especially since you thought you'd be spending this time on...

I agree with what you are saying Hank. It seems to me, things get off track when instead of just stating why you believe one choice is best (for you at least) and the positive things about that valve, the person chooses put down other choices or the people who made them. out right or with subtle...

Good points..One thing that makes it tough to make recommendations is so many hospitals are set up differently so unless you know about the hospitals being considered, its tough. For example many hospitals ICU?CiCU is a large room, either w/ curtains or partitions separating them or bigger rooms...

Partly, but justins surgeons operate on children and young adults who have 3 and more surgeries all week long, and his surgeons always commoent on it during the preop and after surgery meetings on the amount of scarring Justin builds a couple have used the word challange when discussing him with...

Hi I wanted to add, beside pannus, you can grow tissue that is more like scar tissue. Unfortunately Justin had it a few times, once it blocked his dacron conduit that "should" have lasted forever, but he needed that section of conduit replaced less than 2 years after his 4th heart surgery...

Deb I am so sorry, I know how frustrating it is for surgery to keep getting postponed and months go by. One time after Justin's surgery was postponed so many times we went to a different surgeon/hospital. Its good to go to centers that handle traumas and transplants, but it stinks to be...

Whata relief that must be. I'm glad they figured out what seems to be here problem and it was an easy solution

Great news thanks for sharing..Enjoy

. , It already has and it is a shame FWIW the study mentioned in an earlier post about how many tissue valves needed redos, was interesting in that several times thru out the study they say background— Several centers favor replacing a diseased native heart valve with a tissue rather than...

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In my opinion there is a big difference, especially if you are havng one of the surgeries that are not as common. FWIW almost all the patients operated on at Adult heart centers (for lack of a better word, with patients that have aquired not congenital heart problems are having bypasses, then...

I know A few months ago Corevalve got the CE mark (European) for Valve in Valve Aortic Valve for HIGH RISK or unable to have surgery, patients who need a new Aortic valve because their original tissue valve is failing. Today I saw that now Edwards Sapien Valves, both Aortic AND MITRAL have...

I forgot to mention this. IF a all possible, I would feel better being in a hospital post op that HAS Heart doctors on site 24/7. I dont know off the top of my head if either center is a teaching hospitals w/ Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology Fellows, if that was the case I would feel better...

Just wanted to let you know I am sending good thoughts your way and looking forward to a great update

Are you also taking aspirin? did you see what I wrote abou your son? I think we were both writing at the same time

Hi Brit! Welcome, Sorry about the reason, but it probably turned out a Blessing having the testing to work in the US so they caught everything before it was too bad. My son is close to your age, he'll be 26 in April and has had quite a few heart surgeries. Tell you what, when you work hard and...

I'm sorry to hear this, especially since it messed w/ a trip to Hawaii and if your winter has been anything like ours, i'd probably cry if I was that close to going to warrm and sunshine then had this happen. PLEASE pay real close attention to how you are feeling the next couple days, might also...

If you are ntersted, altho there are a couple I believe U of Penn, is one of the best in the Nation. Pretty much you just calland ask to speak to the cardiac surgery dept, then let the reseptionist know you need Mitral valve surgery and that you would like to get a second opinion from there and...