Recent content by mmarshall

I am one of the "older" tissue valvers that do not get on here very much but since it's slow at work....:smile2: I was 31 when it was installed and it has been a little over 7 years now. I get yearly checkups with echo although that just started with the last checkup...use to be 6 month...

Thank you all for the B-Day wishes!!! Mary, I will gladly accept your toast with a Diet Dr. Pepper while the sun is up. Bob, I will more than gladly accept your toast with your Coors Light and one of my Miller Lites....or 6, at sundown. :)

Congrats Bob!!!! But once again, that is the same thing I just went through. It was explained to me that the tech and other cardio looking at the previous echo was over estimating the size and measuring it wrong. I was not told about a dacron graft though, it was explained to me that the root...

I did research when my cardio put me on Coreg/Carvedilol which was about 4.5 years ago so I do not remember the specifics on all of the benefits. I do remember that it not only lowers your BP, but it helps with the blood flow, heart wall repair, etc. I was gradually moved up to 25mg and at...

That makes sense then. I did not see the 50% then drop to 25%. I have been taking Coreg, or the generic of it, and lisinopril since surgery. They basically go hand in hand...when you're taking a beta, most cardios like to have you on an ace as well. It has done wonders for me and I was put...

Hey Ron, I'm not sure why your cardio would tell you something like that since I would think that he/she should be more informed. I had an EF of 25% before my surgery and it took about a year for it to get back to 60%. The cardio should know that it takes time for the heart to recovery and...

I got my echo results back and after looking over the copy I got, I noticed for the first time that paradoxycal septal motion was noted. I had never seen this before and the cardio doing the evaluation was pretty detailed on this echo since there were concerns about the aortic root...which the...

Well I had my echo yesterday and the tech that always does my echo wanted to get the cardio that does the evaluations to come in and oversee it while I was there. We were talking about why I was getting the echo and he wanted to make sure it was done right. It turns out that it was a misread...

Thanks Bob-o, I am getting my echo in a couple of hours and hope to have the results by Wed. With the size being 4.4 in June of last year and then 4.9 last Dec, I think I should have a good read on how fast it is enlarging...for better or worse. I plan on doing the same if it is at the 4.9...

Sorry to hear that the results did not turn out the way we wanted. I will let you know what my echo results are when I get them. If it is the same for me as well, I'm sure my cardio will want to do a CT to get a better reading on it. However, I will probably put the CT scan off until the...

Bob, I got a 29mm Medtronics Freestyle Aortic Root Heart Valve installed and from the all of the research that I did 4.5 years ago, the aortic root was replaced as well, not just the valve. I am in the process of getting the results of that last echo and will get a copy of the one I will have...

It appears that the valve is ok and I am assuming that the root would have to be fine too. I think it is probably above the root. I am getting copies of the two previous echos and will get this one as well. I have not been getting a copy lately since I go in for 10 minutes, he tells me...

Hey Bob, I just go off of the phone with my cardio's assistant and I am going back for another echo on Friday. I will let you know how that goes since we are going through the same thing. On a side note, do you find it odd that the reason for the valve we got was to take care of the valve...

I'm going through the same thing as you are Bob-o. I had my check up a couple of weeks ago but did not have an echo this time around. But at the end of the visit he drops that he wants to do a CT scan since my echo showed an enlargement. Problem I had with that is the previous echo was done 9...

31, tissue...piggy valve and root.