Heart Valve Replacement News and Info
2009… Here we come!!!
On that note, I want to wish everyone who visits this website – the patients, the caregivers, the nurses, the cardiologists and the heart surgeons – a very happy and very healthy new year!
May this be an incredible year for you and all the people around you!!!
And… Thanks for all your help [...]
This email just came in from Lisa, a registered nurse from Colorado, who had mitral valve repair surgery less than two weeks ago. I thought you might appreciate reading about Lisa’s experience, her attitude toward heart surgery and her early recovery. Here is what she wrote:
Dear Adam,
I had my surgery on Thursday, December 11th and [...]
I’m just returning from my annual echocardiogram with Dr. Ben Rosin, my cardiologist at Torrance Memorial.
As some of you already know, these annual exams are fairly stressful. The last thing I, or anybody, want to hear is that a re-operation is required.
Dr. Ben Rosin & Me
In light of the stress (and perhaps a little fear), [...]
I just received a strangely coincidental email from Jerry regarding life insurance after heart surgery.
Jerry’s question reads, “I am wondering if you know of the difficulties of getting a term life policy after heart replacement valve surgery. I tried to increase the policy I had and was immediately turned down due to my history of [...]
Are you ready for some interesting trivia about heart valve replacements?
The mitral valve is the only human heart valve that is bicuspid. Bicuspid means the valve has only two leaflets. Alternatively, each of the other heart valves (aortic, pulmonary, tricuspid) have three distinct valve leaflets – also known as heart valve flaps. Please see the [...]