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https://bgr.com/2018/08/14/valsartan-recall-heart-medication-cancer-risk/

Not sure if anyone saw the story about the Valsartan recall, but if anyone uses it please read, i'll try to paste a link

I'm sorry to hear that and I hope you will end up having a safe and uneventful surgery. Wishing you the best

I would be skeptical as well, particularly because the readings had been so consistent over time. I guess you won't really know until you have another one, which they say is in a year's time. Either 1. everything before this reading was off 2. this reading is off 3. it's all accurate and...

congratulations! If only we were all so lucky It is definitely concerning, because hanging out at 4.6 cm, depending on your height and if you had access to a great surgical place like Cleveland Clinic, they might have already suggested surgery. Would it have been unnecessary? Would they have...

Hello it came out of nowhere to be 4.2 on the last echo. I have no idea how quickly it is growing as I don’t have a lot of data points. I’m not particularly religious or spiritual but I’ve been praying for a miracle that it was an inaccurate reading. Or that it least wont be bigger than 4.2...

Hello all, Recent echo showed I have a small-ish ascending aneurysm and I will be getting a CT to verify it. It would be awesome if it was a mistake as happened to one of our members, but I also need to be prepared that it could actually be larger than the echo says. I think there are some...

Nevermind everyone, I got the specific numbers from my last two echos. I think they weren't thinking about aneurysm. My ascending aorta has grown a lot in the last two years. I'm not sure why the cardiologist looking at it wasn't concerned, but I'm requesting to follow up about it. Pretty...

Thanks for your responses, pellicle. Innovations I'm specifically referring to are related to heart valve treatments. As you have said though, it is mostly marketing talk. However, it does seem that there are innovations with types of tissue valves. I don't think it would be enough to make...

So aortic aneurysm is a major issue as it can lead to dissection which is a most painful and potentially fatal thing to deal with (do i have this correct?). Aneurysms can also develop independent of when valves go bad, correct? TAVR also does not currently have any way to deal with aneurysms...

Update: Had my echo on Tuesday and was told it would take a week before the results would be ready. It had been an up and down time for me as far as my OCD/anxiety disorder. This is a pretty inactive time for me, I'm a teacher and school doesn't start up for a few weeks. I live alone and am...

Thanks, pellicle. I'm trying to come to terms with the future. Some days are better than others. mrfox, thanks for chiming in, particular given your recent surgery. I'm very happy for you that you made it through without issues. You are an excellent example of handling a sudden surgery...

pellicle I pretty much agree with everything you are saying. In the end what it comes down to is fear. We, obviously myself included are just scared of OHS. It's being taken apart and put back together. It's natural to want to find an alternative to a surgery that, despite the statistics...

uncanni's thoughts are pretty much how i feel about it. There's got to be a better way to achieve this in the future. I have only been researching this stuff for a few weeks, so I'm unfamiliar with the dynamics of trying to take business from cardiac surgeons that pellicle mentioned. But i...

Hello all, I'm trying to be more proactive in understanding everything. To be upfront, OHS sounds intimidating to me, so i've been researching trying to find anyway that TAVR will somewhere down the line be a better option than OHS. In researching, I just don't see the possibility there, at...