Recent content by Robbyha

Since i was told that i'm suffering a BAV and a moderate-severe AVS, for a couple of years ago, i'm monitoring my heartbeat during endurance training (=cycling) using my Polar rs800cx, wich can registrate every heartbeat from R-top to R-top. After a lot of HR registrations after AVR from...

Does anyone have (scientific cardiologic) information about bloodpressure limits for people having a mechanical valve? (Bloodpressure measurements when doing some exercises like push ups, dips - with your own bodyweight - and bench presses will give you the personal bloodpressure data you need)...

Due to a few complications (heartpalpitations, low Hb, swelling nonfunctioned drain, HR rest 30 beats higher etc.) in the first two weeks after surgery i've to freeze my ideas for a quick rehab. Some trivial & pulm leakage after AVR. Two weeks after AVR: Listening to my body (not my brain) i...

So my heart is in a remodelling state! Wow! My bloodpressure changes can be compare with a rollercoaster, indeed. Trivial and Pulmonaris valves are leaking (mild) after AVR. Before surgery my HR at rest was 60. At this time, a couple of weeks after surgery, the lowest value of my HR is 75...

Is it possible that an AVR results in (temporarily) insufficience of the tricuspid valve?

Thank you for all the good wishes and reply. After a surgery of 6 days i returned at home with a carbomedics 25mm. My first experience after an OHS (AVR) is, that my rehab will take very slow and relaxed. AVR has been successfull but there were some complications after (bloodtransfusion for low...

best wishes / good luck Norm!!!

Hi Everyone, It's showtime: AVR at monday 29 nov 2010 -> mechanical valve, after a very sportive year but.....progression of the AVA (1,1 -> 0,6 cm2 in 1 year) Still asymptomatic, all the time, until 3 weeks ago (dizzy when heartrate 'peaks' above 125) Keep your fingers crossed for me. Not...

Hi all, Monday 29 nov 2010 it's showtime (BAVR) I'm getting an mechanical valve (I hope that an 33mm does match) Still asymptomatic last year, cycling about 5000 km, but..... the Last echo shows progression of the AVA From 1,1cm2 to 0,6cm2 in 1 year!!! I'm not nervous yet (i still have...

I've got LVH, because of endurance and strength training in the past, not knowing to have a bicuspid aortic valve by birth. On different moments at a deep nightly sleep my heart rhythm slows down to 30 beats a minute. A few seconds later my heart beats 70 times. In my case, this heart issue...

Before i became ill last year (endocarditis), i trained a lot, 4 times a week natural bodybuilding (10 reps 300 Lbs benchpresses without steroids), bicycle racing and mountain biking about 300 miles a week. Also running a lot! Several sports have been functioned like a stress reduction...

my cardiologist has been qualified it as an moderate(->almost severe) AS. AVGradient 68 mmHG, AVArea 1,1 cm2. (How long will it takes to become severe?) Aortic and mitral valve both have been calcified. LVH etc.

Thank you for all your replies. I am not able to banish all the stress. I'm on a low-fat diet (natrium <2,5 gr a day). For a couple of weeks i could work 2 days a week at home using a VPN-connection to logon on my computer in the office. A perfect solution, until my laptop at home had been...

Hi all, I'm a 50 years old heartpatient with a stenotic aortic valve (AVA 1,1 cm2, AVG 68 mmHg), bicuspid by birth, looking for advice to decrease my workload, pressure and presence at work. I've got a fulltime-job as software-engineer at an softwarehouse for 8 hours a day and travels 4 hours...

'AL C', thanks for your reply. I've not had a Nuclear Stress Test and probably they will step over. Soon i'll get a bicycletest, the second one but this time more intense, and after that maybe a heart Catheterization will follow. It depends on the results of the bicycletest. I have already had...