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Dear Hannah I had rheumatic fever at the age of 10. I'm 49 now. I had first ohs at the age of 27 in 2002. Surgeries, knowledge & experience are far better today. 2 days ago I went to Cleveland London clinic for my stenoic mitral valve( started to shrink) and Prof Redwood said, if I ever need a...

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Hello to everyone 22 years after my first mitral valve repair, mv area shrinked to 1.6cm2. Hard to guess exact timing but couple of years down the road there will be a second surgery. I live outside of the U.S. and would like to get my surgery at Mount Sinai or Mayo or Cleveland. I have 2...

After learning that I will have my second valve surgery in 2 to 4 years most probably, I started to read a lot not to miss anything critical. In 2002, I had mitral valve repair due to regurgitation. I had rheumatic fever when I was 11 and repair was done when I was 27 years old in Philadelphia...

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Thank you for your valuable feedback. Have you heard if they do non invansive catheter procedure on calcified stenosis valves other an open-heart valvotomy?

Dear All Is repairement an option for calcified mitral valve with stenosis. Or pretty much, valve replacement is the only suitable way? It was repaired before due to regurgitation when I was 22. There is still a trace regurgitation but stenosis is progressing. Thank you.

Thank you for all your comments folks. Just to clarify I had mitral valve repair that has now stenosis at 1.4cm2. Before it had only regurgitation. As many knows after ring placement, in a long run stenosis might happen. My aort valve has mild regurgitation. It was never operated. Its not...

Hello to all friends here. 22 years ago before and after my surgery this site hekped me a lot. I had a mitral valve repair in 2002 at tge age of 27. I had great 22 years afterwards. I had regurgitation before surgery ( had a rheumatic fever from 11 years ols) . Now still trace regurgitation but...