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My history is a Bovine aortic valve and aneurysm repair in 2005 and a Onx aortic valve and pacer in 2013. This past March I started to have a lot of PVCs whenever I began to exercise ( or even walk fast) and when I sleep. My heart valve sounds became much louder. I started having angina and...

After I got out of the ICU I was moved to a private room in the hospital. My room was marked as an "isolation room". This is a room built for protecting the hospital from patients that have infectious diseases mainly TB. The problem with such a room is that it is kept at a lower pressure than...

Met with my surgeon today and AVR is scheduled for a week from Thursday. My 8 year old Bovine valve is almost closed, .6 cm, surgeon says that for me 3 cm is normal. I am not allowed to do anything that would cause heart symptoms so that means I can either sit or walk slowly. I am usually...

I am going to the surgeon on Monday to schedule my second aortic valve replacement. The part of the surgery that worries me the most is the morphine side effects. After my first surgery I woke up vomiting and with vertigo, not good with OHS. They gave me a stomach pump and medicine to help...