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  1. J

    Questions about diet and INR

    After a full year of being "in the waiting room" for OHS, I'm finally going in for surgery next week for repair of an aortic root aneurysm and a possible AVR. My surgeon says that his first priority is to spare the valve if he can with a David procedure. If he determines that the valve needs to...
  2. J

    Post surgery tests and appointments

    Looking for some info on follow-up testing that I might expect after a mechanical AV replacement procedure and the time-frames for testing (echo, cat-scan, x-rays?). This has to do with my concerns about my proximity to the operating surgeon and hospital. It's possible that I could be getting my...
  3. J

    Medtronic Hall Easy-fit Valve

    This is the mechanical valve my surgeon was going to put in me last February, before I cancelled the surgery. From my online reading, it looks like the St. Jude's and On-X valves are currently the ones being used most often. This Medtronic valve is of the "tilting disc" design. I'm wondering...
  4. J

    How soon to use stairs?

    This has probably been covered before, but how soon is it advised after ohs for people to use the stairs? I'm sure it depends on an individual's condition and their quickness at recovery. Common sense (which I don't always follow) says that the risk of fall would prohibit any early attempts at...
  5. J

    Aortic root repair, avr and clotting

    Hello all. Last December I had an echo-gram and was told I had a dilated aorta with BAV. Subsequent MRI's and a TEE revealed that I didn't have the bicuspid valve, but that I still had a 5.3 cm aneurysm at the aortic root (doc suspects I have Marfan's) and also a leaky aortic valve. They're...
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