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    Calcium-answer from Edwards Lifesciences

    Sometime in late 2004, I posted a question regarding Edwards Lifesciences website?s comment about consulting your doctor before start taking calcium pills. I kept pestering the company last year for their manufacturer?s point of view, and they finally replied. I said before that I?d post the...
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    Insurance question

    I had my surgery at the end of 2003, and stayed in rehab through Jan. 2004. By the summer of 2004, I thought all the hospital bills were taken care of. A few days ago, I received two explanations of benefits that said claims from these two doctors have been denied because they were filed too...
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    Really high ejection fraction

    Hello, I was reading through my annual check-up echo results (MVR ~2 years ago) and it hit me that my ejection fraction seemed to be too high (73%). I don?t have other numbers to compare with since only one echo actually has the EF value. Everything else says EF is normal, without any...
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    Pets and endocarditis

    Hello, I?ve been wondering for a while about the possibility of getting endocarditis from pet bites/scratches. How concerned should I be if a pet bites or scratches me to the point where I bleed? What if the skin is broken but no blood is coming out? Would an antibiotic ointment be...
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    New to the site, with questions (insurance and calcium)

    Hello, I am new to this amazing site and have few questions, one about insurance and the other about calcium. 1) I am 22 years old female with CE bovine valve (MVR Dec. 2003). I had no known medical conditions prior to this. I have a year until college graduation (I took a semester off...
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