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Hi Michele, I regulary travel to many, many places including Russia, Moldova, places like Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam etc, etc. I think í must have done hundreds of trips since betting my MVR back in 2003. There´s nothing strange to it and I do hometest once a week always...

I have been doing extensive travelling in the Far East, both for business and leisure, I think you have been given some good advice already. I´d like to add that before I got my selftest monitor, I used to test my INR locally and in hospitals in Vietnam, Thailand etc, it was really fast, safe...

As you, I bought my own Coagucheck xs from Roche directly. I had to pay for it myself too, but I get the cuvettes for free on a prescripton, it´s paid by the public healthcare. How is it in Norway? You´re gonna love selftesting as it gives you an idea of how you are responding to warfarin, food...

Hei Morten, You do not have to consider what you eat so much in terms of sallads etc. But in my personal case, if I eat quite a bit of broccoli or brussels sprouts,spinach, it will bring down my INR if it is unusually high, if it is in the normal range, it has a less effect. If your warfarin is...

Hi, I travel a lot with my coaguchek xs and have quite a bit of experience moving around warfarin-medicated. In a typical year I would go to Far East 3-4 times(China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand), but also to Russia, Moldova, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Lithuania, France, Spain as...

This range is too naroow and anyone trying to balance between 2.0-2.5 will have a very hard time. Your INR might vary 0.2 between two tests in 15 minutes! I have the range set between 2.1 - 3.0 for my mechanical aortic valve. Anyone setting this range do not understand the basics of...

I´ve used my xs for almost 9 months and must have done 40-50 tests, it has worked very well and I think the cuvetted almost suck in the blood compared to the S model. / Martin

As far as I have seen it doesn´t have actual name. I will look out for news from my horizon, but do not expect much news in the coming months as it takes time. As the valve is clicking on in two brave humans, no news is probably good news...! Keeping you posted, Martin

I have been in touch with the University Hospital in Sweden that are doing the trials with the new generation mechanical valves(ref. to previous posts). A second valve has been implanted and the two patients are doing fine some 3 months post-op. 3 more valves are due for further human...

Well, these things take time. The first step is to complete the first 5 human trials. IF this goes well. The next step is to make a trial of 1000 human inplants. IF this is succesful, the valve will get an approval and can be commercialized.(at least here in Europe, it´ll get a CE-certification)...

I have not seen any information in English regretfully. But I will post any news here. There are 4 more human replacals due with this new valve due within the coming months. Let´s hope the trials goes well, both for the candidates and for the rest of us..... / Martin

My understanding is the INR could go up as your intestines produces vitamine K naturally - if you have a diarrhea, this effects it/reduces it. I was foodpoisoned in Portugal recentily, I thought my INR would drop as I guessed the warfarin just went right through me, when I tested my INR after...

I saw an interwiew with the first candidate, a guy in his early fifties, Mr Roger Forslund. He was very happy to contribute to the trial and looked remarkably fresh right after surgery! Very brave man and someone many of us might be very thankful too some years down the line!! The valve was...

Hi Olso 73, Don´t know the name, it never said, but if you are Norwegian, you can google "hjärtklaff + karolinska" and you will find information from different Swedish media-sources. It was on the main news a few days ago, I only had time to write here just now. Ha det! / Martin

Gina, Who knows what will happen, but I guess the results are encourageing and safe enough to proceed with human trials. Everything has to have a start, let´s hope they are on to something. The medical authorities are very strict, so do not think they´d be allowed to go human without good...

On the 23rd of october a new mechanical valve designed and researched at the "Karolinska" University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, was implanted in the first human receiver. This was the first out of 5 planned human replacals. The mechanical valve is said to have a new design which do not...

I have a Coaguchek S as well as the new Coaguchek XS. I tend to use the XS only now. When I have tested them at the same time, they only showed a difference of 0.1 inbetween eachother. The advantages of the XS is the cuvettes do not need to be kept cool, it´s obviously much smaller and more...

Hometest every week, in hospital every 6 weeks. If I am travelling far to countries with different foods, climate, big time-differences, I probably test twice a week. In for instance China or Vietnam, you come across a lot of good green vegetables that you normally never eat, so you don´t know...

Al, Out of curiousity, how many times during your proffesional years have you seen GI bleeds due to excessive drinking for someone on warfarin-therapy? Is it as common as a clot or even more common? Does the bleed come from an high INR or can it come from an lower INR but due to the stomach...

I wonder if it´s known in the muslim world, heparin comes from pigs? Would a good muslim use it knowingly? / Martin