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Maybe you like this article a meta-analysis arround the ross procedure: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/119/2/222.full

I am on Bystolic (Nebivolol) 2,5mg daily since a longer period (I started with it a few weeks post-surgery on my own will and decission) now and as I have no side effects I do not even ask my doc if I could get of. I think it is a very small dose and it might ease the days for my heart. I read a...

Hi! There are a lot of studies out there reagrding your question e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21793922 but it is all about statistics and you never know in wich group you will fall. What is widely accepted by nearly every leading surgeon is the fact that mvrepair is always the...

Hi Ann, if you have the possibility you may want to contact Prof.Haverich (http://www.mh-hannover.de/haverich.html). I know that he and his team have successfully implanted specially treated human valves in young children and that these valves are "at live" again, that means they grow with the...

Hi Friends! I am over the mountain - and feeling quite good! My surgeon repaired my mitral valve minimal invasive, so I did not need any replacement. Surgery went well and I am already on rehab and doing some "soft" sports. After the surgery I had AV-Block III for 2 days, then an AV-Block II...

Hi Friends, the time is now... My surgery is (re)scheduled for tuesday the 23th of August, this makes three days from now so tomorrow I will travel to the Hamburg University Heart Center...

Hi Manish, what about the Ross procedure? Wouldn´t that be a choice? Or aortic valve repair? One should not forget these possibilities! Greetings, Marc

Hi Steve, no prob! Thank you anyway! I am happy to be a civil servant, so there will never be any problem with my job or my insurance. Wish you the best! Marc

No, no I'm still PRE-surgery and waiting for a new surgery date in the next few weeks! Best wishes, Marc

Hi Friends! My surgeon got ill so I have to wait a little bit longer for my surgery and I am back home now. I will keep you informed. Best wishes! Marc

Hello sister in valve! I wish you the best and I hope we both will be back here in a week or so! Marc

Thank you all for the warm welcome! Like Bina I also think, that we all here should be thankful to live in such advanced countries so we can at least live with our bigger or smaller valve problems. I´m still reading around the forum and will keep you updated as far as possible about my way...

The study goes not along with any new anticoagulant! They just reduced the dose, to get a lower INR and showed, that this lower INR does not increase any risk. In Germany we use Phenprocoumon (Marcumar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenprocoumon ), so the study was done with that and with...

Yes you are right! They checked doses that result in very low INRs. The study was done with sjm-valves only. There are two former studies called ESCAT I and ESCAT II, the one I posted is the mid-term of ESCAT III. Here you can find some more informations: http://www.ismaap.org/index.php?id=595...