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Just got a copy of my Dec. 22, 09 echo, which is 16 months post op. Everything is looking good. My heart has remodeled back to normal size! New Medtronic Freestyle Aortic Valve is working fine, no regurg. In fact the tech let me see it working when I had the echo done. The other 3 valves are...

After 9 months of normal sinus rhythm, my A-fib came back with a vengeance tuesday morning the 27th. After a trip to the ER I was sent to my new cardio for followup. He immediately took me off the amiodarone I had been on. Then he asked if I would like to try a new drug Multaq. Anything but...

To bring you guys up to date. I had my AVR and ascending aorta replaced with a Medtronics Freestyle valve in August of 08 at Stanford. I returned home and went back to my cardio for post op treatment. In January of 09 he did an echo as part of the follow-up testing. He told me the results of the...

Doesn't seem like one year, but here it is already. It was actually August 5th last year, but the first tuesday of the month that I went to Stanford, where Dr. Scott Mitchell replaced my defective AV and dilated aortic root with a Medtronics Freestyle Porcine valve. I feel great and am back in...

Eva: Heard from my surgeon at Stanford. He seems very interested in my condition. I am requesting from my cardio to send Dr. Mitchell the preop and post op echo discs for him to evaluate. He said he couldn't understand why my LA would enlarge, when my LV had gotten smaller. Said he hadn't seen...

Had OHS in August of 08. AV and ascending aorta replaced with the Medtronic Freestyle valve. My echo on 1/29/09 revealed my heart had remodeled as far as the LV is concerned. It came back from 67mm to 57mm. However the LA went up from 38MM 58MM post op, plus the MV now has mild regurgitation...

For 3 years I was monitored for a leaky aortic valve, and an ascending aorta aneurysm. When the aortic root reached 5.7 cm my cardio told me it was time for a change. He sent me to Stanford because of their work with Marfan patients, although I didn't have Marfans. Dr. R. Scott Mitchell...