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Hi there, I just wanted to ask for some prayers and good thoughts for my amazing friend and office room-mate Michelle, who is going to have surgery next Tuesday to fix an aortic anyuerism that is partially dissected. This is her third OHS; her first was an emergency for an aortic dissection...

My mom hasn't been doing well (extreme fatigue, SOB, constant hacking cough and recurrent fevers) so she had a right heart cath last month. The results indicate that she has radiation-induced restrictive cardiomyopathy, which from what I have learned on the internet seems to be pretty rare and...

I am sorry that I turned out to be one of those people who only post when there's bad news. I will try to be better about that...and here is some bad news: My mom hasn't been feeling that well in the year and a half since her surgery (she had a couple of good months but things have been bad for...

We are approaching the one year anniversary of my mom's AVR and MVR (7.20.08)! My mom mentioned to me the other day that this anniversary is kind of hard for her because, although she is of course extremely grateful to have had the surgery and gotten through it, she hasn't been feeling well at...

Hi there, I haven't posted in a long time, mainly because my mom has been doing pretty well and I have just been checking in now and then. She has hit another bump though, and I am wondering what people think of this: So my mom (background: radiated heart disease, had AVR, MVR, a CABG, and a...

Hi Everyone, I have been looking forward to writing this post for a long time (all my other ones have been worried/complaining ones): My mom is really doing well! She had her surgery on 7/30, had some complications, pericarditis, Dressler's syndrome, fluid, a-fib and was feeling pretty down...

Hi there, Just wanted to give another update on how my mom is doing (she had AVR, MVR, a PFO closure, and 1 CABG on 7/30/07). She saw her cardio today and he has confirmed that she most likely has Dressler's Syndrome. She has been on Prednisone for the past two weeks and her pleural effusions...

Hi there, I posted last week about my concern over my mom being prescribed amiodarone. Turns out that we both (my mom and I) called her cardiologist separately and voiced our concerns. The cardio agreed to let my mom wait until her next appt to start the amio, which was on Tuesday. When she...

Hi there, My mom, who had her mitral and aortic valves replaced on July 30th, was just put on amiodarone last night after an emergency visit to the cardio (BP was 180/60 again and her HR was going nuts). Having read on this site about what a serious drug this is, I am very concerned. I...

Hi there, I haven't updated on my mom in a while, so here is the latest (it is really long so you can skip to the end for the actual most recent stuff): Today marks 5 weeks from when she had her aortic and mitral valves replaced, a PFO closed up, and one bypass. She went into a-fib for the...

Thanks to everyone for their replies to my previous post about my mom going into a-fib. She went into the local ER on thursday night, stayed in a-fib for 6 hours, then came out of it on her own. The way that she converted back to sinus rhythm involved a period of about 5 seconds where she had...

Hi there, So last weekend, my mom had what her docs think was a hyponatremic mini seizure episode. Several days later, they found she had pleural effusion. And just last night, she went into a-fib for the first time. She is in the local hospital and they are considering transferring her to...

Hi there, So my mom had 2 of her valves replaced and a bypass on Monday, July 30, and she came home this Monday. In these early stages of recovery, it is so hard to tell what to be worried about and what is normal. This morning something weird happened. My brother was sitting with my mom...

My mom is now sleeping in the ICU after her successful surgery today! She had her mitral and aortic valves replaced, 1 bypass, and a PFO repair. The surgery seemed to last about six hours. We were allowed to see her about one hour after she was brought into the ICU. She was actually...

Hi there, sorry it has taken me a while to post about the situation with my mom (her double valve replacement surgery was postponed two weeks ago because the pre-op cath results indicated that her mitral valve wasn't as bad as they had thought...). In any case, the results from the TEE indicated...

Hi everyone, So my mom went in for the cath yesterday (wed) in preparation for her double valve replacement surgery today (thurs) and the results indicated that her mitral valve did not look as bad as they thought. I think they thought it was going to be mod-severely stenotic, but it was more...

Hi Everyone, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but my mom (Lorraine1234) is going in for her double valve replacement surgery a week from today, and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for things that people did/brought to you in the hopsital that were helpful or...

Hi guys, My mom (she just joined the site and her name is Lorraine1234...we are creative:rolleyes: ) and I just met with Dr. Krieger at NY Presbyterian hospital and we now have a date (and a doc) for the big surgery. She is going to get her mitral and aortic valves replaced. She is in the...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any experience or info about radiation damage as it relates to valve replacement. My mom is a 55 year old woman who was successfully treated for cancer via aggressive radiation in the the early 1970s. The radiation used at that time was apparently much...