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Speaking from a personal point of view, mine functioned perfectly post-op. No reason why it shouldn't be as good as any normal one. Obviously it'll click now and the beat is probably more noticeable. With regard to mess, if that's anticoagulants, then yes that's a life time thing unless...

Why wait until you've got symptoms which reduce your day to day wellbeing though? I had a congenital aortic stenosis and so have gone through the process of regular check ups as a matter of course. At one particular appointment, the cardiologist told me the valve was deteriorating and I needed...

Hi folks, first post (of many I hope). I had a mechanical aortic valve fitted in 1996. There were always occasions when the beat certainly feels more noticeable, particularly so when I lay in bed and was feeling a little anxious perhaps, and then it was like a drum banging into the mattress...