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Hi All Hope all of you are doing fine. I am 30 years old had robotic mitral valve repair surgery in Cleveland Clinic on 10th March 2010 so it has been almost 5 months since my surgery. I am doing great overall and going to Cardiac Rehab. Had my 6 month check-up done and all reports came fine. I...

Hi Brian Facing the same left shoulder pain and chest discomfort. Contacted CC and my surgeon is saying there is nothing to worry about. Simple pain killers should be able to take care of it. My PCP has me on Naproxin 500 MG x2ce a day. My pain always comes after I travel for a couple of hours...

Hi Brian How are you doing? Today is 2 month from the big-day!! I am doing good and staring rehab from today. Take care. Ashish

Hi All Today I and Brian both complete our first month of surgery. We both were lying in our respective ORs in Cleveland clinic at this time last month. Brian is having a fabulous recovery and I am not too bad either. Hope we will keep having many and many more. Thanks to all the support from...

Congrats on 3 week anniversary Brian! Hope all keeps going well for both of us. I still have to take one or two Tylenols a day to contain the incision site pain and discomfort. My right side chest feels super tight. One incision in groin has opened up a little bit so I had to take another trip...

You are gonna kill the poor guy... :)

30 yr old male here been 2 weeks out of robotic mitral valve repair in Cleveland clinic. Would love to answer your questions regarding robotic procedure if that's what you are going to have. Feel free to contact me. Ashish

Thanks for this question Brian. Have been trying to convince my wife for more than a week. Hope she will relent after reading this. :)

Wow! I don't even know anyone having some birthdate as mine and here you are having same re-birthdate. So we were lying in ORs in the same hospital at the same time.. Can't think of any bigger co-incidence.. I was in J-5 Room No11 post-op. How is your recovery going on?

Thank you. I meant shower. Sorry-mistyped. Pumphead? :o

Hi All I had my successful robotic assisted mitral valve repair performed in Cleveland Clinic by Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic on Wednesday 10th March. I was put in ICU for less than 24 hours and 2 days in step-down room. I left the hospital on Saturday morning and was admitted on Wednesday morning. I...

I had my first TEE done recently and it was not bad at all. All you taste is the spray and I don't even remember the scope going in or coming out as I was put to sleep. It depends a lot on who does it. I was talking to someone recently and his physician made him swallow the scope when he was...

Hi Monty I am not sure if you still follow this thread but how did you feel about Dr. Mihaljevic? Any other member would like to chime in? Thanks. Ashish

Congrats. Hope I will have similar story like yours one fine day. Take care and enjoy..

Thanks to all of you. Looks like CC is going to be place of my surgery. I contacted Dr. Tomislav Mihalijevic to begin with but with more research I am finding Dr. Gillinov is another famous surgeon. I have an appointment scheduled with Dr. Mihaljevic in January. Do you people who have been...

Thanks for all the wonderful replies. Makes me feel much better. As I see some of you are planning surgeries or have recently undergone it. Didn't any of you had an option of robotic/ Da Vinci surgery? Is there a reason that you people went for other way? My Cardiologist thinks that median...

Hi All I am a 30 yr. old male from Indianapolis diagnosed with Severe Mitral Regurgitation recently. I am pretty much asymptomatic and never felt breathlessness or other stuff. I had a slight chest pain on left side and went for PCP check-up which resulted into cardiologist referral, an EKG...