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Hospital: Medanta Gurgaon Surgeon: Dr. Anil Bhan

Hi Shanith, I am from India too and had aortic valve replacement at 32. I went with Mechanical. Ross is complicated and it is not performed that common in India. Listen to what pellicle is saying. If I was in your position, I would choose in this order: 1) Mechanical would be the top...

You are lucky. I begged my surgeon to replace 3.6 cm aorta along with the valve, but he refused. He mentioned that they are not allowed to do so below 4.2 cm.

You are highlighting negatives of mechanical valve and hiding negatives of tissue. Do you have tissue valve implanted by any chance ? Both are suitable based on person's age, lifestyle and many other factors.

He beat me by few seconds..

Hopefully pellicle will reply to this ...:)

My Aorta was 2.1 in 2008. I started lifting heavy(at-least for me) weights and it grew to 3.8 in 2013. Stopped lifting weights, it has been stable for now. I had AVR in 2016, i requested my Surgeon to replace Aorta too which he didn't since size was < 42 mm. If he had done that, i would have...

Do you still lift weights?

I am also wondering why you had to stop Warfarin. When it comes to INR machines(had to buy 2 in a year), INR strips and Warfarin, i don't even bother about insurance. All this matter only while i am alive.

I agree with pellicle. I have not seen contents of food affecting my INR much, and it is Indian food full of spices. I test weekly. I now eat whatever i want without thinking about INR. Quantity of food does affect INR though. Less food(20-30%) for few days increases INR a little. I have...

Additional risk of endocarditis, clotting, bleeding and reoperations.

I don't know name for them. Google "yoga asan for back ache baba ramdev". Some of them are shown in videos(i checked the one with 7:23 duration). I had lower back pain.

I would suggest Yoga. It has worked for me. You need to spend just 5-10 minutes daily.

Chance of anything bad happening in 1 year = .02, chance of anything bad not happening in 1 year is 1 - .02 = .98. Total is always 1. Let's say we are dealing with n years. Chance that nothing bad happens during n years + Chance that something bad happens (in 1 or more years) = 1. There is no...

Not everybody is scared of it. I always remember that my life expectancy is around 20-25 years. I had surgery at 32, so that makes it less than 60 years. There is a old man in my village who had his valve replaced 10 years back. His teeth are horrible, he doesn't know about endocarditis, lpa...

I am from India and had surgery done last year in Medanta Gurgaon by Dr Anil Bhan. He is one of the top valve surgeons in India. Total cost(including ON-X valve's cost) was around 8000 dollars. I would advise you to consider him. Many people from outside India come here for surgery.

Same thing happened to me during the surgery and i died after that.

I had little fever for over two weeks when i had wisdom tooth extraction done 2.5 years back. They had to cut a little bit of jawbone, it caused extensive pain and fever. I had bicuspid valve(it has been replaced now). I was not worried about endocarditis as the chance of happening it on...

Tragic to whom? To the society or to the person who is dying. I saw few 80 years old whining like babies when i was in hospital for surgery. Society accept their death as natural, but they were really scared at the possibility of dying. Have you seen a 1 year old scared of death? It is just...