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I’m in excellent health and I don’t have any side effects after an aortic valve replacement surgery that I underwent in 2007. After a second interview for a job I will be required to have a pre-employment health check. Could I be denied employment because of my aortic valve prosthesis? Did this...

Please see my post on New Advancements Forum Please see my post on New Advancements Forum Please see my post on New Advancements Forum, because it's related to your question. http://www.valvereplacement.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31813 Regards, gdfd

July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Traveling long distances by plane, bus, car or train may nearly triple a person’s risk of blood clots in leg veins and lungs, a review of previous studies found. For each two-hour increase in travel time, the risk of developing a clot, known as venous thromboembolism...

Gender - highly important in heart transplants http://www.zmescience.com/gender-highly-important-in-heart-transplants The gender of the person one receives the heart from may in fact prove highly important for their future evolution. As reported on November the 12th at the American Heart...

Sounds very interesting. It opens a window to the future.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=aKTWDUDrZxpc&refer=home

Try to sleep without a pillow, just on your mattress. At the beginning it will be painful, but for me this helped. Later you could try to lay on your back on the floor, maybe with someone’s help.

In fact the fewer was more important after the surgery but wend down gradually. Now it's 99.5 F. Regards, gdfd.

Hi Bina. I take Metoprolol. I hope it will work too. My surgeon described the surgery as a wery good one. I spent at the ICU only 24 hours (the shortest time possible.) Except the fast hearth rate and a small fever (that seems to come from the surgery site) I'm fine. Regards, gdfd

Hi all. I'm back home. I had my AV replaced with a Carbomedics mechanical one and my ascending aorta replaced too with a Dacron graft. The surgery was performed at the Montreal General Hospital by dr. Christo I. Tchervenkov. My problem is my heart rate that is still around 100, two weeks after...

I didn’t undergo any surgery yet, but I also had double vision problems. When this occurred, the image from one eye was superposed to the image of the second eye, but the superposition wasn’t perfect. One of the images was shifted. Those episodes lasted for under two minutes, and my fix was to...

Hi Seth, I wish you a short and successful surgery and a fast recovery.

Hello all, I agree that having the surgery as fast as possible is the best idea. As I said I will have mine in October this year. As many of you suggested is always wise to have a plan B if the plan A is to keep in place the original valve. My surgeon said that, if I ask him to consider the...

English Title: Homocysteinemia is a risk factor for aortic dissection. Personal Authors: Takagi, H., Umemoto, T. Author Affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sizuoka Medical Center, 762-1 Nagasawa, Shimizu-cho, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka 411-8611, Japan. Document Title: Medical...

Hello all. Few days ago I met my surgeon and it seems that my surgery will be scheduled sometime in October. He told me that my own aortic valve (bicuspid with mild stenosis and mild regurgitation) seems to be in a good enough shape to be left in place (no repair necessary). However the...