bill hall
Member
All - I joined VR.com in August 2000 and had my aortic valve replaced with a homograft and mitral valve repaired at Cleveland Clinic in Jan 2001. I was one of the first to join before surgery and I am forever grateful for the help. I continued with VR.com for many years. In 2007 they found a pseudo-aneurysm on the suture line of my aortic valve replacement. Johns Hopkins saved me from surgery by inserting a plug in the pseudo-aneurysm. Now the plug has disconnected from the tissue and the pseudo-aneurysm threatens me.
I have several concerns about this upcoming surgery. First, they had a hard time restarting my heart at Cleveland. It is ten years later and my heart is afib and EF is down. I wonder about my chances and if anything is improved in this area or maybe something I am not aware of. The aortic valve is actually working well, but ten years old. The pseudo-aneurysm is dangerous and I wonder if the aortic valve should be changed. The time to do both might be too long. I would welcome any opinion from this group. I know we are patients, but any tidbits of information might help my confidence or direction. Thank you all once again.
Bill
I have several concerns about this upcoming surgery. First, they had a hard time restarting my heart at Cleveland. It is ten years later and my heart is afib and EF is down. I wonder about my chances and if anything is improved in this area or maybe something I am not aware of. The aortic valve is actually working well, but ten years old. The pseudo-aneurysm is dangerous and I wonder if the aortic valve should be changed. The time to do both might be too long. I would welcome any opinion from this group. I know we are patients, but any tidbits of information might help my confidence or direction. Thank you all once again.
Bill