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Greetings everyone. Hope everyone is doing well. It's been a long time since I've visited the site. Just wanted to bring everyone up to speed on my wife's recovery. We returned to Shands Hospital at Gainesville today for my wife's one year anniversary, for her open heart surgery. Remarkably, she...

I've already posted on the rehab forum, however, I thought I'd get more response here. My wife is approximately 4-weeks post op. she had avr and is recovering very well. She just received a prescription for cardiac rehab, however, we are having a difficult time locating a facility near our...

My wife is approximately 4-weeks post op. she had avr and is recovering very well. She just received a prescription for cardiac rehab, however, we are having a difficult time locating a facility near our home. The hospital where she had her surgery is about 3-hrs from our home, so the doctors...

My wife had avr (mechanical valve) 6 days ago. She is 46 yoa and doing wonderfully with her recovery. She w just extubated 3-days ago and already has been transferred from cicu, where she spent 5-days and was then transferred to a step-down unit for 1-day and is now on the regular cardiac floor...

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie to the site, which I have to say, is a wonderful help site. Anyway, let me introduce myself. My name is Ralph and have been married to my beautiful wife, Laurie for 25 years next May. Laurie has congenital heart defect, more specifically, avr with mvr regurgitation...

Has any member had their AVR @ Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL? And if so, who was your surgeon?

Has any member had their AVR @ Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL? And if so, who was your surgeon?

Hi everyone. I'm new to the site and to my wife having complications from her heart. She has congenital aortic stenosis which is now labeled, "severe aortic stenosis" in addition to pulmonary hypertension. From what I gather after speaking to the surgeon, her aortic stenosis is 0.7-0.8cm2. She...