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I received a St Jude Mitral valve, a bovine aortic valve and an artificial aorta root, plus 2 bypasses in 2010. I have not totally regained my health yet, but I have progressed quite a bit. For the past month, I have been considerably more short of breath. Last Thursday a tee revealed that my...

I received a St Jude Mitral valve, a bovine aortic valve and an artificial aorta root, plus 2 bypasses in 2010. I have not totally regained my health yet, but I have progressed quite a bit. For the past month, I have been considerably more short of breath. Last Thursday a tee revealed that...

I know its been quite awhile since my last update but here it goes....Mom made it home after 8 months @ the Cleveland Clinic & Rehab on Thursday, July 28th! She's doing great and I'm sure she will come around and log on in the near future. Thank you all for your thoughts & prayers. She pulled...

It's been a while since I last sent an update about my mom (bbbdirector). My mother was released from the Cleveland Clinic on Saturday, Feb. 5th and transported by ambulance to a Washington DC Specialty Hosp/Rehab. My mom was totally out of it the next day (assuming she was exhausted from the...

Hello, I am bbbdirector's daughter and I wanted to let you all know that she has been at the Cleveland Clinic for almost 6 weeks and there's great news, if all continues to go well she will be discharged on Tuesday (1/4/11) and transported to a rehab center near her home! It has been a long...

I have been at the Cleveland Clinic since this past Tuesday, Nov. 16. I am scheduled for surgery tomorrow. My surgeon is Dr. Pettersson. He recommended that he will replace my aorta root, aortic valve with on-x, maybe the mitral valve, and one bypass.

I woke up in the middle of last night because my right leg, from just beneath my knee to my toes felt very numb and swollen. It was not Swollen, but it Felt Very Swollen! I just kept rubbing it and finally the numbness went away and I was able to put weight on it. I know I was not dreaming...

I met with Johns Hopkins surgeon, Dr. Duke Cameron. I now understand why he said that he could do the surgery that another surgeon one year ago told me was too risky. Dr. Cameron told me that they handle the porcelin aorta problem by replacing the aorta and then cut through the replacement...

It has taken me almost a year to follow through with the comment I posted about a year ago - I wrote: " I will contact John Hopkins Hospital tomorrow because I have a copy of all of the test results you mentioned. I am wondering - I was told my the surgeon in DC that the main problem other than...

I received radiation, spleen removed, and MOPP chemo for hodgkins in 1978. I found out that I have aortic stenosis a couple of years ago and was told by my doctor that surgery was too risky because of a calcified aorta in April 2008. Since then, I have been receiving medicine treatment to...

Hi Everyone: I found this site almost a year ago. I emailed one member - who promptly answered me, but I did not join the site. Many of my questions were answered by just reading answers to others questions that I found on this wonderful site. Now I have questions that I did not find an...