Living with a Mechanical Heart Valve: Click.Tick.Thump. Love It!

Artificial Heart Valve Surgery & Living with Warfarin: UK Info Support Group

Social media support group in UK dedicated to information for people who have had - or are having artificial heart valve replacement surgery

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Graeme Archer and Mike Lillico are now friends

9 hours ago

Danielle Schweikert I was born with Aortic Stenosis and I had my valve replaced with an On-X valve June 4,2010-I am 27 and a mom of 3!

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20 hours ago

Stephanie Crummey commented on Mark Townsend's blog post 'post surgery'

great news - I am looking forward to that - I go back in September, and feel guilty I am not back earlier as I am feeling so good most of the time.

yesterday

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Is your heart valve noisy ?? 45 Replies

Is it ever! - But I love it! YOUR thoughts and experiences in this discussion..how it affects you, your partner, sleeping with a mechanical heart valve, questions - any other points? Put it all down…

Tagged: artificial, tissue, noisy, mechanical, valve

Started by Graeme Archer in Uncategorized. Last reply by Joel Hebrink Jul 26.

Warfarin - YOUR thoughts.. 12 Replies

This forum topic is for any thoughts you have on Warfarin..Good..Bad..Ugly..Whatever..!

Tagged: dabigatran, inr, coudamin, valve, warfarin

Started by Graeme Archer in Uncategorized. Last reply by Graeme Archer Jul 8.

AVR / Aortic Root Replacement 7 Replies

Met with my surgeon today to review the results of a recent MRI scan. I may cover my history in the blog section shortly but was recently looking at an aortic valve replacement, had a repair when I w…

Started by John Norfolk in Uncategorized. Last reply by John Norfolk Jul 5.

Sternum - NON UNION 5 Replies

Had my op 4 months ago now and felt a small sore lump on the side of my scar, I'm presuming its a bit of the wire used to hold the sternum together. Starting having a feel along the sternum and to my…

Started by Laura Chapman in Uncategorized. Last reply by Laura Chapman Jul 5.

Blog Posts

Living with a "non-typical" heart.

When a cardiologist informed me in May of this year that I should have surgery to replace a leaky aortic valve and repair an ascending aortic and pulmonary aneurysm, at first I didn't give it much thought. At age 18 months (1962) I had a Blalock-Taussig Shunt (don't remember that one), and at age 8 (1969) I had my tetralogy of fallot repaired. I remember quite a lot of that procedure. I was able to live a relatively normal life. I participated in contact sports in high school, and really didn't… Continue

Posted by Joel Hebrink on July 26, 2010 at 10:05pm — 2 Comments

post surgery

I had surgery on 5/27/10 at Hartford Hospital and am home now. I had suffered from a tight Aortic valve. I opted for the On-X mechanical valve. It was the first On-X transplanted at the hospital. On-X trained the staff and had a representative in the operating room. I barely notice the sound. I am still in the recovery stage and can't wait to get more active.

Best Wishes to all,

Mark

Posted by Mark Townsend on June 17, 2010 at 12:00am — 5 Comments