Heart Valve Replacement News and Info
Hi everybody,
I just received a note from the Patient Education Team at the Cleveland Clinic about a new, online tool for patients with mitral valve regurgitation. The tool is pretty neat for learning about mitral valve regurgitation, the severity of mitral regurgitation, echocardiogram results, ejection fractions, heart dilation and atrial fibrillation.
Ultimately, this new Mitral Regurgitation [...]
Are you ready for another interesting “True / False” trivia question about heart valve surgery? Okay… Is this statement true or false?
One of the first heart-lung machines used in cardiac surgery, the Dewall-Lillehei machine, cost only $15 to manufacture.
For the answer, please scroll below the picture of Richard Dewall and his artificial heart-lung machine (1955).
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I just received a great question from Heidi about heart valve disease, surgery and seniors.
She writes, “Adam – My mom, Betty, has recently been diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis. Although her murmur was detected years ago, I never thought she would need open heart surgery. She’s 68 but acts like she’s 38. No symptoms at [...]
I was just reading The Washington Post when I came across an interesting story about aortic valve replacement. In addition to discussing the recent heart valve replacements of Barbara Bush and Robin Williams, the article posted its “Top 5 Facts About Aortic Valve Replacement”.
Tissue Valve Replacement Sewn In Aortic Position
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I just received an email from Bob about cardiac care centers. He writes, “Adam – Do you happen to know what is the number one hospital in heart valve replacements? I have a mitral valve prolapse and I need a mitral valve replacement. I would like to know which are the best hospitals in the [...]