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After 8 weeks, all is going well. I'm doing rehab 2-3 times a week and walk on my tredmill daily. I'm feeling much stronger on a weekly basis. I'm still on warfin for the next 4 weeks according to my Dr. Hope to go back to work after Easter. Just thought I would check in and let all know my...

Other than low sodium is there a diet that I should be on after valve replacement. I realize that a low cholesterol diet should be followed but is that it?

A special day, involving a HEART. Sort of takes on new meaning.

Can anyone tell me what is involved in cardiac rehab.

When into Robert Wood Jonhson Hospital Friday the 20th at 5am for mitiral valve repair and aortic valve replacement.It was a scary situation but it was a pair on valves that had given me troble for 40 years and I waited as long as i could comfortabally have the surgury with as little risk as...

I called my Surgeon on Friday to ask a few questions and was informed my his office assistant that my surgery date would have to be moved from Wednesday the 16th to Friday the 20th. Ahhhhhh

I visited my Cardiologist last evening for the results of my TEE. He tells me that the mitral valve looks repairable but the Aortic valve needs replacement. He told me that because of the lung pressure the valves should be taken care of in the very near future and he gave me some names of...

WOW have been reading everything i can on Heart Valves and what to replace them with. Is there something as too much info? I was aware of a Heart Murmer when I was around 12 Years old. I'm now 57. My family Dr. at the time had me taking Penicellin daily as a child. Ignored that advise as a...