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All, Finally after spending 9 days at the hospital I was back home on sunday. I didn't immediatly post the msg as I was too tired to sit in front of the computer. Now i'm in the recovery phase of the surgery. So far so good. I had to spend little bit more than 3 days in ICU due to fluid all...

Hello All, I'm going in for the pre-op today. My surgery is tomorrow (thursday) at Stanford,CA. I'm feeling the inner calm that many of you felt. At the same time, there is little bit of excitement about the possibility of getting back in shape in few weeks. I've learnt so much from you all...

I was in touch with her sister throughout yesterday. He came out of the surgery room at 5:30 in the evening. Long surgery, but the surgeon told her that he is doing good. This morning she called me and was in joyous mood. She told me that he is wide awake/alert, they removed his breathing tube...

So far on observing various thread... It looks like there are 7 surgeries scheduled in the next two weeks (including mine!!!!) July 11th - musician2k July 12th - Jonesie July 13th - Denobobeno July 14th - Mikekass July 14th - pfsinger July 18th - Dustin July 18th - Kimfusca? ( Is july 18th...

Not sure if this is the right forum to ask... I've Kaiser (HMO) and my wife has a PPO plan. Kaiser doesn't pay for any treatment outside of their hospitals. If I want to go to a hospital of my choice for the surgery would my wife's PPO pay for it? What is ur your experience in this kind of...

Now that I know I need ascending aorta replaced with Dacron... What is the durability of Dacron? Is there any life style changes because of this? I know this surgery carries little bit more risk than "Plain vanilla valve replacement (:D ). What should I expect with "new" aortic root, "new"...

This is my first post in vr.com. I'm living with Bicurpid Aortic Valve for the last 36 years. Though asymptomatic all these years ( I play tennis, badminton, basketball moderately), recent Echo came out at 0.6cm aortic valve opening. Peak pressure gradient is at 130 with mean at 80. I'm looking...