Thanks!
18th valversary for my bovine valve
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Truthfully I hoped for 15 years and was quite prepared to have a second OHS. At the time, 2005, not much was said about TAVR but now it looks like I will go that route when the time comes.
macdaddy
Glen
That helps a lot; thank you for that clarification Superman.
Congrats. I got the bovine back in 2009. All good still. No issues as yet. I’m 70.
I'm chiming in very late on this, but a big congrats on turning 18! Such wonderful news and may you continue to surpass your cardiologist's expectations. Fantastic.
pellicle
Professional Dingbat, Guru and Merkintologist
evidence is accumulating that for his age group TAVR is shaping up as the best alternative.
Thanks!
carolinemc
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Congrats.
Rob.D1970
Member
That is awesome news to here. I have to have my Aortic and Mitral valve replace. I have been leaning toward the tissue valves vs the mechanical valve. Any information and or suggestions you have on the procedure and recoory would be greatly appreciated.
carolinemc
Well-known member
My aortic valve is a St. Jude's leaflet and have had it for 22 years, on warfarin and doing fine. I have yet to be looking at surgery for the mitral valve, they are just watching it closely. On bypass, it was the old crack of the chest and placed on the heart and lung machine. The time was less than it was when I was 8 years old, and it was called a repair with the scrapping of dome of the murmur. Over time, as I grew older, the murmur got worse again, thus the valve replacement. Recovery for the chest takes one years, restrictions are usually for three months for the sternum, one year for the muscles to heal from the trauma of being cut for the surgery. I usually tell those who have the chest crack to exercise by walking to start. You cannot pull on anything like stair railings and such for the first three months. Then you can get the exercises going to get the body build back up on the stamina. That is all I can relate to you. Good luck on your choices and bypass surgery has come a long way these days.
I too have a Perimount Magna Ease. About 5 years into it. @Duffy, your share was inspiration? a relief? hope-inducing? All of the above.
All: You might find some of the research about magnesium supplementation interesting. Some hope that it might decrease calcification.
Research (found to-date) around magnesium supplementation. Here's a meta-analysis published in AHAjournal, June 2017. Note the passive binding hypothesis... https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/atvbaha.117.309182
And another from BMJ in 2018. https://openheart.bmj.com/content/5/1/e000668
Neither conclusive, and I wish for an RCT, but funding for clinical trial in supplements can be hard to come by. Enough for me to go ahead and move on it until I find contraindications however, from my perspective. And I'm not a supplement nut, quite the opposite. I've experienced no side effects that are noticeable. N=1 ;-)
I'm taking 210mg of Magnesium Citrate BID
YOLO-YMMV-Carpe Diem ;-)
I would say yes. I would say that you want to eat at heart healthy diet that would be a low fat low sugar unprocessed Whole Foods plant-based diet. Ala doctor Caldwell esslestyn.. you'd want to keep your weight down exercise take high doses
of statins keep your ldls down to 45 to 55 and do off label PC ks9 to turn back the clock on your LPA number if it's high.)
That's cool man I've been doing 400 mg of magnesium daily for brain heart hearing and mood regulation health
Hi @macdaddy
I have a Mech valve - placed when I was 50. I am extremely happy with the choice I made and have never second guessed it. HOWEVER, if I was 70 years old, there is no question in my mind - NONE - that I would have went with a tissue valve; the Edwards Inspiris Resilia to be specific. In fact, I’m confident that I would have went with the Resilia at 65yo too.
Good Luck and God Bless.
macdaddy
Glen
I'm more encouraged every day this thread rolls around. I was supposed to have my aoritc valve replaced in January, but insurance complications with Medicare has forced me to hold off. The catagorized me as "severe" back in July of last year, but other than the tests, I'd never know it. No symptoms whatsoever. I'm turning 72 next month; and I'm opting for bio, just seems like they've made much headway on life cycles for this devices, and I'm mosty drawn to the quick recovery and the fact they can always do a valve in vlave if needed at a later date. Congratulations Duffy, and may there be many, many, more anniversaries in your future.
Well, I wouldn’t say they can “always” do valve in valve. But certainly at age 70 bio makes sense.
I had somehow missed this thread, but I'm happy from the very first post! I also have the Perimount valve, it's 5 months old, so I hope it lasts at least the 18 years of the original poster!
