Valve regurgitation

[jlsen]

I was wondering if any one has had their valves go from (mitral-moderately severe, aortic-mild to moderate and tricuspid-trace) to (mitral-mild to moderate, aortic-mild and tricuspid-trace)?Now someone is telling me they are different again. I just had a echo done and the person doing it said that my aortic looked worst than the mitral and the tricuspid was trace. She is not the DR and I have not talked to him yet. I have been so tried with SOB on doing any kind of activity, both legs swelling sometimes and a little tightness in the center of my chest. I have come down with a chest cold so that might be the reason for my SOB and tightness. Just wanted to vent my flustration. Six years ago they were talking about replacing my mitral valve then it got better so I tend to worry.

 

[medtronic of borg]

tests

tests

the one thing that is common is that they know they are leaking. Take some comfort in that. Let them get it all worked out with additional tests like a cath. From that they can assess many things,if not all of your probs.

Med

 

[fyrfytr]

Hey jlsen,
I agree with Med, until you have more tests done like a cath. they will not know for sure what is really going on. I hope everything turns out OK for you.
Take Care

Dave
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Surgery: 4/21/03
Aortic Aneurysm Repair
AVR, with a St. Jude Mechanical

 

[Nancy]

Hi jlsen-

Echocardiograms can sometimes be different. There are good operators and there are not so good operators, also there are levels of detail that can be requested by the doctor. There are also probably good machines and not so good machines. So there are many variables. I wouldn't read too much into the past echoes. What's happening now is the important thing. Let your doc run the necessary tests, and try not to get too worried prior to getting all of the data. You need the BIG picture, not just a piece of it.

Maybe you need a TEE to see exactly what's going on.

Good luck.

 

[JimChicago]

Hi jlsen-

Echocardiograms can sometimes be different. There are good operators and there are not so good operators, also there are levels of detail that can be requested by the doctor. There are also probably good machines and not so good machines. So there are many variables. I wouldn't read too much into the past echoes. What's happening now is the important thing. Let your doc run the necessary tests, and try not to get too worried prior to getting all of the data. You need the BIG picture, not just a piece of it.

Maybe you need a TEE to see exactly what's going on.

Good luck.

Would you recommend getting a 2nd echo to rule out machine/operatorerror? Those TEE ones aren't much fun.

 

[Nancy]

TEEs

TEEs

No they're not much fun, but the information they give is invaluable. With the right doctor doing them they can be fairly easy. Joe has had several. For some of them he's been so relaxed, he was asleep. If you have to have one done, talk to the doctor ahead of time if you have fears. Perhaps they can make you more relaxed than normal.