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Has anyone heard of administering anesthesia in the brain for a valve replacement. I have a cousin who is going the Mao Clinic for valve replacement and this is what they told her. We didn't know what to say. Thank you Mrs mainframe

I had my surgery at Stanford 8 years ago. A bit of a rough ride for awhile but got out of the hospital after 2 months. Aside from 3 surgeries for a sternal infection and last year's brain bleed, things are going well now. Ejection fraction not what I'd like, but what are you going to do?

Nov 11, 2009, I had my second AVR at Stanford my Dr. Craig Miller. I had a pretty rough time of it. About 5 weeks in the ICU and over 2 months in the hospital. There was a pretty long thread about my stay...

I had my second AVR at Stanford 11/11/09. Had a bit of a tough time (including a chest infection that lasted 3 years) but I'm still here doing pretty well. Thanks to all the forum members that gave me support, both in 2009 and in 2002 (my first)...

It's been 3 years since my surgery at Stanford. I think it took almost 2 years to recover and feel more or less normal again. I didn't even think of this yesterday. I guess that's a good thing.

I was wheeled in to surgery where Dr. Miller spend 11 hours on my re-do AVR. I had been admitted to Stanfords ICU about a week earlier and didn't get back out for the next 2 months. I've felt pretty good considering the last severals months, though I haven't done nearly as much walking as I...

I scheduled surgery for Nov 2 to remove all my wires from my 2nd AVR last November. For the last 6 - 8 months I've been dealing with the skin over the incision opening and oozing a bit in a couple of places. A general surgeon removed 1 wire in July, but it left a good size hole and never...

Seems like a pesky infection continues to plauge me. I had an open wound right above a sternal wire that removed in July. The wound has been slow to heal and now another smaller open occurred a couple of inches below. I had made an appointment with the general surgeon who removed the sternal...

During the pre-op testing for my second surgery, I was told I had a bovine arch. (I understand the term is really not correct but rather have the left common carotid artery originates separately from the innominate artery.) Anybody else have this. Are there problems associated with this...

This is pretty silly actually, but what the heck. During my years having a bovine valve, I kind of always wondered "what kind of cow" did my valve come from? A regular hamburger cow? A special medical cow? (somehow more sanitary if there is such a thing). Maybe a mad cow? Do they use only a...

For last few months I've had what my primary doc called a "granulation" which has been an open wound at the incision site of my AVR. Seems a couple of sternal wires are causing this and I scheduled surgery on July 8th to remove a couple of them. It's considered a day surgery so I should go...

I had a recent echocardiogram and wanted to share what I think is good news. Right after surgery and at a 3 month echo, my ejection fraction was only in the 20's. My cardio wasn't surprised that it hadn't improved at that point and suggest we do it again at 6 months. It seems that my recent...

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Anyone else lose their mind while in the ICU. I had a few good episodes where I lost track of reality while in ICU. And I'm not kidding. - During my 11 days on the ventilator, I remember being convinced that my wife had absonded with me the night before my surgery and took me to the UK...

I went into Stanford on 11/7 having surgery on 11/11. Had a bit of a rough go of it. I was in CCU for a few weeks before being moved to a step down unit for 10 days. Then I transfered to an accute rehab facility for 3 weeks half of which I was on forced bed rest due to a blood clot in my leg. I...

First my surgery got slid from 11/4 to 11/12. Once that occurred, the doctor became concerned about my excessive fluid. I checked into Stanford for a 2 day stay(and great visit by our Bill B) to drain the fluid using IV Lasix and that started Coreg. On discharge they upped the Lasix to 40...

I'm trying to be really understanding but it's difficult. I orginally had surgery scheduled for 11/4. So we traveled the 800 miles to get the surgeon of choice,, Dr Miller. For some reason his office choose not to explain Dr. Miller decided not be be in town on the 4th of Nov, my scheduled...

I'm 4 days out prior to my 2nd AVR with a severely leaking aortic valve. I get short of breath extremely easy but have been able to sleep up to the last couple of days with a couple of Tylenol PM. The last couple of days it doesn't seem to have helped and I got zero sleep Thurday night and...

I had my pre-op cath yesterday. The good news is my cardiac arteries were clear and no bypass is necessary. I had a chance to chat with both my cardio who did the cath and my soon to be surgeon. A few days ago, I had spoken with the surgeon on the phone and he hinted he might not replace any...