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As the title states, I had normal ef function around 60 - 65% ef function before my AVR, I was lucky. Now a year and a few months later, I just had my first yearly follow up echo and it showed severely low ef function at 35% and I am not in systolic heart failure. I have a normally low blood...

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Anyone have any suggestions as to when you should take warfarin? I usually take it around 6 pm. Is this a good time or bad time or does it matter?

Just after my AVR I struggled with atrial flutter and had a constant heart rate of 130+ for some time. I felt worse than I did before my surgery. I was scheduled to have an ablation done to fix it, however my heart shocked itself into a normal rhythm and my heart rate was steady between 70 and...

I have spent the majority of my post op time sleeping in a recliner, mostly due to the fact that it hurt so much to get in and out of bed. I was wondering if anyone else did the same thing and also how long it took to adjust to sleeping in a bed. I have recently decided to sleep in a bed, or...

Hello folks, I thought I would introduce myself to the community. I am 41 years old and was born congenital bicuspid aortic valve. My parents were told when I was born that there would come a time in the future that I would need surgery and left it at that. During my childhood I struggled with...