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Sometimes, when I close my eyes, I can see microspots moving in a little streak just in the center of my vision. When I open my eyes I don't see them. Someone may call it "visual snow", but the symptoms of VS are different - one can see it in dark room, like TV static noise. And I see my...

I am asking, because there is a mounting evidence of BAV with AVR, who suffer or have benn suffered an aura, particularly without headaches. There are some trials, that BAV itself creates a specific pulstating vibrations, which predisposes the aorta, pulmonary artery and even the peripheral...

I have not written for a long, but today I wanted to see how is it going here, and looking to the new forum-part BAV and CTD, I decided to put this thread. OK, bicuspid aortic valve is a congenital defect of the aortic valve. Logicaly, we can not expect how a defect will be localized to a...

What do you think? Once I asked one of my cardiologists, whether my little MVP is myxomatous. He answered, that the myxomatous tissue may well be seen on echocardiography and mine doesn't show these signs. How do you thing about? Ivo

The BAV is characterized by significant percentage of developing stenosis early in life. It is known, that valvular sclerosis is part of the process to calcification and "stenosing". In half of the cases of aortic valve stenosi, there is associative CAD, but t is known, that there is a tendency...

Hi, guys! I wanted to post such thread for long time ago, but I never had the time, so now it is :) Bicuspid aortic valve is a condition whith very variable phenotypes - it can be found from the inafncy to people in their 11-th decade of life (e-medicine, 2006)! it may not cause any problems...

Hi friends, I haven't posted for long time, since I go to the university and I am very busy, making some prjects for Mercedes. Many of you know, that the Fibrillin-1 is the major factor in the development of the bicuspid valve disease. Its mutation or deficiency (not clear yet for me) cause...

Well, here it is - a very good looking echo: RESULTS: (NORMAL RANGES) LVES volume - 100 ml (<150 ml) LVED volume - 37 ml...

Ejection fraction is one of the most important parameters being measured during pre-operation period and sometimes after it. I remember mine having been so varying, that one week pre-surgery it was estimated as 46% and just the day before surgery it was measured as 56%. First reaction of me...

Hi, friends! In the post-operative sanatorium after my surgery, I was told, that in my room there was a hero few days before. A man, 84 years old, who has had his aortic valve prosthesis implanted in the far 1966-th visited the hospital profilacticaly after 20 years pause. He has been 43 at...

How about your NYHA class before surgery and after it? :)

Hi! How many medications have you had to take right after surgery? I'm getting very nervous already of that. How long am I going to take pills (except anticoagulants)? Or may they be permanent? What kind of meds did you take, guys? Ivo

What is "fibrosclerotic" sells in the coronary cusps. In the epicrisis, my surgeon has written about finding such cells in the replaced valve. Does anybody know anythink about that? Is that the normal process of damaging of the defective bicuspid valves? Ivo

Your president Bush was on a visit in Bulgaria (10-11.june) for 24 hours. He was invited by the bulgarian president and prime minister in Sofia (the capital). Before the landing of Airforce 1 there were some protests of the antiglobalists, but after his comming, people met him warm and friendly...

Hi, friends! I am finally home after many obstacles! My AVR went great on 07.june and they dismissed me on the 4-th day from the hospital. I was in a very good condition, going for a rehabilitation program in a little cardioclinic in a little touristic town :) So far so good, but it was very...

Hi, guys! Here we go! This week I was scheduled for a cathetarization, but when I spended the night in the hospital, early in the morning the doctors said: "We don't need a cath for you, becouse of your young age". And realy - there is a guidelines, where they do not require always a cath for...

Has anybody had inittial phase of LV dysfunction, which after AVR has recovered to normal LV function and LV sizes? They recommended me a surgery in september, but I insist to have it in a month or two. The reason is, that I'm very scared of irreversible damages of the heart muscle.

What is the influence of the hemodynamic performance to the patient's longevity and long outcomes? Is it an important factor, which plays a great role by choosing the valve? Ivo

Hi, guys! I still try to develope my language skills and I need some advice :) May you help me a little bit. I have read many times the phrase "in general". In bulgarian this pair of words has different meanings. How may I interpret "in general" = "most", "all", "75%", or anything else?

Hi guys! How about playing soccer on the playground next to my house with some friends in the weekends? It is a contact sport, but I believe, when it is just for the fun it is not so dangerous... I used to play in the local team for a while, before I knew about any heart problems. Now, I am...