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Just a short note, since this isn't the most ergonomic laptop situation for someone with recent heart surgery (will fix that soon). On Thursday June 11th at 5:15am, I entered Stanford Medical Center for a valve sparing aortic replacement. After various preps (shaving, IV, etc...) the surgery...

I will be traveling to Stanford to have Dr. Craig Miller do the surgery. I'm leaning towards a valve sparing aortic replacement (he says that I'm a good candidate in spite of my bicuspid aortic valve), but I haven't made a final decision yet. Any advice from those who have had a valve sparing...

Several people in the forums have mentioned having had strokes. I'm wondering about the causes and how common they are. If you have had a stroke, was it during Open Heart Surgery, or was it caused by having a mechanical valve and not having a high enough INR, or was it caused by afib? Do you...

I'm a pretty active 46 year old male, with a reasonably slow resting heartbeat (48-60bpm). In June I'll be having my bicuspid aortic valve repaired or replaced, plus a stretch of the aorta. Now, I like having a pretty slow heartbeat, and I wonder if this is going to change after surgery. I'm...

Hi All, I have an 5.4cm aneurism of the ascending aorta with a bicuspid aortic valve, and I've been told that I should have surgery soon. Although the measurement hasn't changed since 2002, apparently the doctors have changed the surgery criteria for non-Marfans patients from 5.5cm to 5.0 cm...