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@nohrt4me Wowzee, Jean…that’s some news! Heart issues are way out of my wheelhouse so I can...
surgery. ... Valve replacements. ... /connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/aortic-valve-replacment ... search=Open+heart+surgery+for+aortic ... +valve+ Wrapping you in a gentle
Posted: Apr 28 12:40pm
@ksmkj Hi I had aortic dissection six years ago repaired 2025with Tevar combined with an open...
@ksmkj Hi I had aortic dissection ... repaired 2025with Tevar combined with an open ... heart 2024 for mitral valve repair ... I had my surgeries at northwestern. ... I had surgery on last number right a
Hello @phyllisq, it looks like this is your first post, so let me welcome you to...
function or the development of aortic ... valve leakage. ... Symptomatic VSDs: May require repair via open-heart ... surgery (using a patch) or minimally ... heart surgery at Mayo/Rochester.
They go in via open heart surgery via the sternum. The aortic root and ascending aorta...
They go in via open heart surgery via ... The aortic root and ascending aorta ... I ended up with an artificial valve ... My surgery was at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Feb 25 7:09am
Good morning, Jean. I can feel your frustration through the computer this morning, and rightfully so!...
The prospect of having open heart surgery ... on blood thinners for a while post surgery ... mine recently had a Transcatheter Aortic ... Valve Replacement (TAVR). ... But I hope the cardiologist will open
Posted: Apr 17 8:50am
@babheart I had mitral valve replacement with a bovine valve in 2013 (pacemaker in 2012), and...
in 2012), and was open heart surgery ... replacement done thru the groin with an “aortic ... No issues with the surgeries just some ... As far as recoveries: open heart was ... Had AFIb prior to open heart and none
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Mar 1 1:18pm
I have not entirely figured it out, either. What I have realized is that, even with...
valves, dilated pulmonary arteries, ... valves regurgitating and increased ... My ascending aortic aneurysm is 4.9 ... procedures, I'd be looking at open ... heart surgery.
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Mar 16 9:16am
@larak Hi, I read you comment, and can relate with my experience with cardiac thoracic surgeons....
for cardiac events even without the heart ... only focused on their protocol for surgury ... which will have to be done since the aortic ... valve is calcifying and both will be ... repaired with open heart surgery, (
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Mar 18 12:20pm
@larak In late 2023 and Jan 2024 I was told not to worry about a 4.7...
another catheter procedure on Sep 4 and open ... heart surgery on Sep 10. ... agreed not to do it that day unless he opened ... possibility of doing it if he had opened ... You have a bicuspid valve and that changes
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Apr 5 6:43am
I have the bicuspid valve and the ascending aortic aneurysm. March 6, 2024. I had the...
I have the bicuspid valve and the ascending ... aortic aneurysm. ... I had the open heart surgery. ... During the surgery, they repaired the ... valve the aortic root, and they also
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Apr 17, 2024
Hello I wrote in to explain about my Spinal Infection some time back, maybe a couple...
message board for patients who have had open ... heart surgery, I had that too up in ... I had my Aortic Valve replaced with ... an artificial valve--a Bull Valve and
Posted: Mar 3, 2024
Hello all! I recently went to Roger Williams ER for Coumadin poisoning. Too much in my...
Hospital (trauma hospital), for emergency surgery ... issue for all this is they found an aortic ... on a blood thinner for a mechanical aortic ... valve (I had open heart surgery in ... I think it’s a torn aneurysm in my aortic
Discussion: evar procedure
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Oct 25, 2023
Don’t ask me why the word “yang” is in my post. My keyboard adds or makes...
I had a St Jude mechanical aortic valve ... a heart murmur. ... My aortic valve was leaking and that ... So I went for open heart surgery and ... torn) that seems to require extensive surgery
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Oct 4, 2023
I had open heart to replace valve with mechanical one. They also replaced ascending and descending...
I had open heart to replace valve with ... replaced ascending and descending aeortic ... My surgery was 6/8/23 with today being ... more than you most likely want to hear
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Sep 18, 2023
I had my aortic valve replaced in 2012 because it was leaking blood. It was suspected...
I had my aortic valve replaced in 2012 ... by my cardiologist because he kept hearing ... didn’t catch an infection from the surgery ... Dangerous for my brain or heart. ... replaced they may have to open you
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Sep 7, 2023
Hello purple turtle. I’m in the exact same boat as you. In 2015 a murmur could...
The surgery at that time was only open ... heart surgery. ... After they opened my chest they put ... The surgery lasted quite a while I heard ... valve aneurysm in my aortic artery
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Jul 24, 2023
I was sent to a hospital ER for an unrelated issue. While in the exam room...
him why and he said I had a celiac (aortic ... the trauma hospital for emergency surgery ... thinner because I had a mechanical aortic ... valve installed through open heart ... surgery back in 2015.
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Apr 17, 2023
Hi. Sorry that you are scared about this. It’s understandable. From what you say, it seems...
seems that your father is not having open ... heart surgery, though that was considered ... The minimally invasive surgery he is ... had one five years ago to replace my aortic ... valve, and I was up and walking the
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Jan 11, 2023