Recent content by Hannes

Hello again! It's been almost a year now after surgery and things are still going very well. Doing a lot of roadbike riding. Even long rides (80km+) are no problem and I can keep up with my "healthy" friends easily. Taking the cardio-aspirin every morning became a real routine after a few month...

Hello all! I have had the second checkup after surgery now. The values are still where they have been after surgery. Everything is fine. Doing a lot of Sports, including riding mojntain passes with my bike in the Swiss Alps. Works better than ever before. I am back at work 100% since almost to...

Hello all! I posted a thread about my soon to come Ross surgery a couple month ago. Well, after being postponed two times because of a flu infection in the first case and an emergency-delay in the second, I had my Ross done on the 14th of december at the University Medical Center of...

Going for the Ross! Going for the Ross! Hello all! I met with the no.1 specialist on the Ross procedure here in Switzerland and had a chat with him. He recomended the procedure for me, saying that he´s not "a big fan" of the mech. valves in younger patients that want to do sports due to the...

No catheter- I guess. No catheter- I guess. Hello again! I had my first meeting with the surgeon this morning (an other one than the one I talked to on the phone) and it was quite a surprise for me. Catheter wasn´t mentioned first and after i asked, he told me that he wouldn´t recommend it...

Thank you so far for the great info and wishes. I´ll write down that list and listen to my surgeon- and my guts of course! And thank you for the english- compliment, Marguerite. In fact I went to school in the North West in my senior year. Not in Oregon, but in northern Idaho near Coeur d'Alene...

Hello all! Lucky to have found this forum! Very interesting information and helpful pre- and post- surgery stories! I was born with a biscupid aortic valve, which worked fine until just now and was only recently discovered during a MRI (they recognized the calcifications), which I had after a...