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Hi. I had my valve replacement surgery in Sept 2008 and am doing well, but I've now been turned down for long term care insurance based on "History of Atrial Fibrillation in combination with Mitral and Aortic Valve Replacements". This seems terribly unfair to me, but I'm not here to vent, would...

Hi. I had double valve replacements a little over a year ago, and have been feeling better and better. When I had my first post-surgery dental cleaning 6 months ago, as usual I took my antibiotics, and at first the only thing that was different from usual was that my gums bled all day from the...

Hi. Can you please help me with a couple of questions? I'll be going back to yoga class for the first time since my Sept. 24, 2008 double valve replacement surgery and I'm concerned about positions (like downward dog) that put your head in a lower position than your heart: (1) Will it put too...

Hi. I was just looking for information about starting to exercise at the gym now that I'm 6 months post-op and want to rebuild my muscle tone and strength. I came across this webiste which doesn't answer my question, but has a lot of common sense pointers for the first few months post-op...

Hi everybody. Last time I wrote, I was having pretty bad atrial fibrillation. Here's what happened since: I went to the emergency room, where they stabilized me and asked if I would like to go home and later schedule valve replacement surgery, or take a spot that had just opened up. I took the...

I don't know what to think or do about this. I originally got atrial fibrillation a little over 3 years ago at the same time that my mitral valve narrowed and I needed a valvuloplasty. Since then, the atrial fibrillation has been controlled by flecainide, and an occasion (4)...

Hi. My name is Laura. I'm facing mitral valve replacement surgery and I'm scared. Im hoping you can help. My medical history is that they tell me I must have had rheumatic fever as a child which I don't remember. I live in northern California and three years ago, Dr. Alan Yeung at Stanford...