Recent content by DDT77

Im quite good as a "driver", they know whatever it is, it's not friendly, and depart the area with vigor.

Used to throw hay bales and bowhunt with 75 lb pull bow, so the lack of strength aspects is not so nice. Bowhunting with a loud clicker is not destined to be a successful endeavor anyhow.

Was more than 4 years ago. Dialation went into arch, but was corrected during the opening. Onyx with ascending prosthesis, connecting with seperate prosthetic into arch.

on metropolol, post ascending aortic prostheses and avr. Surgeon and team have advised against even pushups, due to enhanced bp, and resultant stress on interface <stitches> between prosthesis and native aorta. My understanding is prothetic valve and prothetic valve have sufficient fatigue life...

They may also be willing to send you a larger scale plastic model of the valve.

Estimated XARELTO® Co-pay Cost | XARELTO® (rivaroxaban) (xarelto-us.com) The list price of XARELTO® is $470 per month! Just a touch more than warfarin?

I am wearing mine (valve installed 2017) ring and card received 2018.

Sounds like Coag-Sense may have more customer interest in coming weeks and months. I had inquired with Aleris, and passed after the pre-increase pricing, which appeared as exploitation (of patient and insurance company). Apparently my cardiologist had approved a number of patients to use Aleris...

I'm curious as well. I have ascending graft with ON-X AVR. My surgeon discouraged even (modified) pushups. I thought it might have been fatigue life of the graft. No- He explained that graft is relatively stiff while the remaining aorta is compliant, and the connection between the two are these...

might want to look at large chain pharmacies such as costco: Search for a Drug (costco.com) Warfarin appears under 15 USD for 100 tablets...

Metoprolol Succinate or Tartrate? I was on 2x 25 mg of Tartrate and was sluggish (+ some extra lbs), the 50 mg Succinate seems less of a daily rollercoaster, and does not drop heart rate into low 30s, only high 30s. A few months ago, I had run out of Succinate, and fell back to taking...

Projohta - I think there have been a few visitors with similar queries to yours. I had Ross near age 20 for BAV. AVR with On-X near age 40 due to Aortic aneurysm. Warfarin addict for about 3 years now. Looking back, not sure I would have gone Ross again. Have now had two OHS, and still have a...

I also have Coug-sense. If i recall, i'll run a test tomorrow with it and stop by cardio's office for a finger poke, and compare results...

I just received one as well. Wife handed it to me and I said, "damn - recall notice". Not a kind look in return... Just looked at Apixaban price. Twice daily? Is study funded by BMS? Duke is chairing the study, and just had annual checkup there but a month ago. No study query from their side...

I had assumed that the patients with hyper-coagulation would be presenting lower PT / INR readings. Not so: "Error - Cookies Turned Off" Non-survivors have higher PT time than survivors!