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My best friend of almost 30 years just called me. He is at UC hospital in Chicago and they are wiping down his chest for an immediate lung tranplant this morning. This all happened so fast. I'm in a daze. If you could, please pray for Pat- he is a great guy.

Sometimes when you wait too long, it is too late. I came across Dr. Nasser in 2004 during my research on heart valves history for a PBS/NOVA presentation. He practiced just 5 hours drive from my home. I always wanted to meet him and discuss early heart surgery and the PBS project. For...

Hank posted a note at the top border in the Heart Forum- I almost missed it but I'm sure a lot of people would like to hear this if they knew about it!

This is where the "Nightmare of warfarin" comes from!:mad: See pages 14 and 15: http://www.medtronic.com/cardsurgery/downloads/200502161EN.pdf

This article is over two years old and I'm sorry if someone has posted it already but as we on VR.com age, a good percentage of us have or will have AF. You should be warned about the problem with this drug. Posted on Tue, Nov. 23, 2004 Millions unaware of heart drug risk, FDA slow to deliver...

March 8th Mothers, sisters, girlfriends and of course our wife- what would ever do with out them?:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Here is the history: Dwight Harken. Dr. Dwight Harkin was a U.S. Army Surgeon and saw many soldiers who had shrapnel or bullets imbedded in their hearts. The human heart was one organ that had never been violated by the surgeon's scalpel and no attempt was made to remove the fragments from the...

Has anyone ever noticed the lack of longtime minority members? It seems to me That we have had a few pass through like Arcweld and another who used The Stones Logo (sorry don’t remember his name). My hope is that they found what they wanted and just moved on like so many do. How about the...

The danger in that thinking is VR.com is supposed to be about helping people cope with OHS. That can take many forms, but is simply divided in to two categories: emotional and the other factual. We give both freely here on many different forums. I have no problem with people giving emotional or...

Many of our polls ask questions of our more experienced member. I would like to offer our newer members a chance to voice their opinion. For our new member who have not had surgery yet or even decided on a valve choice, this poll seeks to understand your mindset. Most members (there have been...

This poll is about before and after experiences for those on anti-coagulation therapy (ACT). What the poll gauges is the difference between the expectation of problems with ACT before surgery and the reality of ACT, 3 months after surgery. This poll is to be voted on by members with real life...

Here is a link to the agency that accredits hospitals: http://www.jcaho.org/ There is a 800 # and email address. Best to give a detailed written email with events and names of people who were responsible and any reaction to your compliants to an incident, so they can check to see if it was...

Al, In a recent discusssion in the Valve section under the thread "Valve question", post #102 the subject of warfarin came up(I know-why does it get talked about so much over there and not here!). This study quoted several parameter relating to valve perfromance in terms of warfarin...

Let not sqabble over who has the best research, let debate the future of valve choices. I'm not going to set up a poll, because that would be just numbers, not discussion which is what we do here. What do you think the direction of valves will take to solve the problem of people with valve...

Several weeks ago, I saw a TV show that interviewed the editor of "The National Geographic Society"(NGS) explaining how they plan 5 years in advance for their stories. Next week on the 14th and 15th is the 45th anniversary of the first two heart valve surgeries. Dwight Harkin on the 14th...

Here is a case study of one- you need to scroll down about 25 stories for the abstract, full text in a month: http://www.tmc.edu/thi/contents.html This also would be a good time to note our new member Heinz has had a ball and cage valve for 29 years- How about a round of applause...

that this is still with us and they don't know much more than they did 50 years ago. :( http://www.health24.com/child/Child_health/833-847,28882.asp

Pretty soon OHS will be like a NASCAR pit stop- all good for the pt. if it proves out: http://www.biospace.com/news_story.cfm?StoryID=18723020&full=1

The Bobby Darin movie "Beyond the Sea"? Saw a bit of it on The Larry King Show and they seemed uninformed about valve problems. I wondered how they treated the subject in the movie and if it was worth seeing. I remembered his death and feeling how lucky I was to be living with my ball valve.

This quote is a statistic cited in the valve section regarding choices between mech. vs tissue. "but there is the 2-4% bleeding risk associated with a mechanical valve each year." In light of better clinical testing and home testing this figure seem high. Also, how low of a threshold do...