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I know this topic has been discussed previously, but I don't think there were any definite answers given. My 10-year old daughter had an MVR last summer and has been on warfarin since. Since she started the warfarin, periodically I've noticed petechiae that appear on her face and lower legs...

Thank you all for your responses. You confirmed my original feelings that such a narrow range is not always going to be practical or doable, but I'm not going to stress about it. It would be less stressful if I were the patient; I think it's much harder being in the parental role knowing that...

Several months ago I posted a message regarding our nine year old daughter who was due to get MVR surgery this summer. We decided on a mechanical valve, and on July 10 she received an On-X #25 valve. Everything went beautifully, and you'd never even know that she'd had any surgery at all...

Marc, Thank you so much for this information. I have never heard anything about this, but it certainly sounds very promising. Ann

Thank you all for your advice and well wishes. Tom, your post made me feel a lot better.

Thanks for responding. Can you describe what you mean by "he recently had his first bleed"? What exactly does that entail? I'm also concerned about how warfarin interacts with other medicines. In the past 1/2 year, my daughter has been on three different antibiotics and prednisone twice for a...

My nine year old daughter is going to have mitral valve replacement surgery this summer. She has had two previous OHS--one at three weeks of age for a Complete AV Canal Defect and one at six years of age to repair a severely leaking mitral valve. After the mitral valve repair she developed...