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    Echo readings

    I am on the annual echo cycle since I had my mitral valve replaced. So far the mitral is fine. However they found a bicuspid aortic valve with fused right and left coronary cusps and fibrocalcific changes with reduced opening (stenosis). The drama for me has been the changes in the Aortic...
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    50 year old caged Valve Starr-Edwards

    We report a unique case of a caged-ball Starr-Edwards prosthesis (model 6310, cloth covered) implanted in the mitral position by Christian Barnard that was successfully explanted and replaced after 50 years, the longest period free from valve dysfunction ever reported. Caged-Ball Valve
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    9th year on St Jude

    The 16th was my 9th anniversary of a mitral valve replacement with a St Jude. I still sport a sternotic bicuspid aortic valve that may be a candidate for intervention at some point but so far it is "wait and see" I was unlucky to have had rheumatic fever as a kid and that damaged my valves but...
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    Big brother...Amazon watching

    I logged into my Amazon app and saw this? How do they know I take Metoprolol or was it chance?
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    Colonoscopy

    I have the procedure scheduled in a week and I am talking to my cardiologist tomorrow. I have not seen in here a discussion of this procedure, whether to bridge or not given that there might be biopsy of polyps and what not. My gastroenterologist left it to my Cardio to make the call and I got...
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    August 16 - 7 year anniversary

    It is now 7 years since I had my mitral valve replaced with a St Jude mechanical valve. Backstory: i contracted Rheumatic fever around 8 years old that damaged my valve and developed stenosis. For a long time I was on intramuscular Penicillin prophylaxis. At 39, the valve opening had narrowed...
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    August 2017 - 4 year Anniversary

    A little late I know but I was busy celebrating. This forum has been very educational to me and I follow up on many stories but I am relatively quiet because I get easily annoyed with some things. Why would someone avoid a mechanical valve because of noise/coumadin and risk a second surgery...
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    Head-to-head study: TAVR Edwards vs Medtronic

    The minimally invasive aortic heart valve replacement system from Edwards Lifesciences Corp performed better than a rival product sold by Medtronic Inc in the first head-to-head study of the two, according to data from a small German trial presented at a major heart meeting on Sunday. The...
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    Sanity with valve choices

    I have read with great interests the valve selections in here: mechanical versus bioprosthetic; On -X, St Jude; Masters, Regents... Not to mention blood dynamics and flow over valves... It's good to know we have choices today but an argument on efficiency, blood flow, valve function to me...
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