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My husband who had his AVR April 2010 porcine valve had a cut on his gum that looked red. He went to the dentist a few days later and he thought it was fine, just a little swollen. My husband took antibiotics. He wasn't feeling that great though and felt tired. A week later he had the area...

We are planning to take a 5 hour flight to LA then a 12-13 hour flight to Brisbane. Does anyone know if there is an increased risk of blood clotting w/ AVR? My husband has a porcine valve, takes one baby aspirin a day....

My husband's AVR was done April 29th and it took until end of June for the 2 liters of fluid in his lung cavity to finally be gone. Since then he has been steadily increasing his active lifestyle, jogging/walking about 2 miles a day. The only thing that is still hard for him is sleeping more...

Hi Everyone Eric has had this dry cough for about 5 weeks now. Some effusion fluid in his chest cavity that they said would resolve. 2 days ago he spiked a fever 101. Last night they did an echo, took blood cultures(not back yet). The echo shows leaking and infection. Eric had the biocore...

As beautiful as the CC is, glad to be out of there. Eric's surgery according to his surgeon went perfectly. We were still debating about what valve to choose until the morning of the surgery, he did pig st. jude 28 mm. CC definitely has a bias towards tissue vs. mechanical. Thus they do many...

Hi, Eric's surgery went well without any complications (4-29) He chose the porcine bio st. jude valve. The surgery went well but when they pulled out his chest tube his heart began to click which was really loud and very disturbing. It now has subsided po day 5. Tomorrow they plan to release...

I'm wife to Eric super awesome husband age 43. 10 years ago my husband had his valve (bicuspid) repaired at CC (using gore-tex i think). Then, 2 years ago he was finishing the last 100 yards at a triathalon when he collapsed, went into V-fib. Luckily for him the medics were about 10 feet...