Heart Valve Replacement News and Info
Here’s a great patient success story about John Doss, a 56-year old Karate instructor from Michigan. Doctor Ali Kafi, Chief of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery, from Detroit Medical Center, performed the aortic valve replacement.
During the video, Dr. Ali Kafi references the use of a mini-sternotomy. To give you a visual comparison of a mini-sternotomy incision versus [...]
As we have previously discussed, heart valve disease can be genetic. In my family, it appears that a gene for congenital bicuspid aortic valve runs through our DNA.
To this point, I just came across a good, educational video about two related patients - Joanne Kennedy and her daughter, Laura. Both Joanne and Laura required heart [...]
As many of you know, I am a technology enthusiast. I love seeing the ways technology can improve our lives - especially when it comes to heart valve surgery. One of the newer technologies in this industry is the MitraClip which is used to treat mitral regurgitation (which results from leaky heart valves).
Over the past [...]
Since announcing the upcoming webcast about robotic surgery from The Cleveland Clinic, my inbox has been flooded with questions about the minimally invasive, Da Vinci Robot.
To help you learn more about the Da Vinci robot, I located an interesting video from CNN that will educate many of you about the benefits of robotic surgery for [...]
I juut came across this interesting video about women, heart valve disease and heart valve replacement surgery.
If you would like to watch this patient video about Donna Stricklett. If so, simply press the play button and make sure the volume on your computer is on.
The key topics discussed in this heart surgery video include:
Leaky Heart [...]
There’s no doubt about it. Doctor David Adams from Mount Sinai in New York deserves a lot of credit for his surgical skills. Many, many, many patients I speak with praise Dr. Adams and his team - especially for mitral valve repair surgeries.
That said, I thought you might like to see Dr. Adams at work. [...]
Matthew has an interesting, video request…
He writes, “Adam - Thanks for your book and blog. I’m 47 years old and in the ‘waiting room’ right now. I have mitral valve prolapse (moderate mitral regurg). My cardiologist thinks I may need surgery within the next 1-2 years. Curious to know if you have any echocardiograms that [...]
Here is an interesting, 5-minute video specific to aortic and mitral valve surgery. This aortic / mitral valve video follows the stories two patients - a mitral valve repair patient and an aortic valve replacement patient.
Mitral Valve Patient - One part of the video documents Tom Cross’ mitral valve repair procedure by Doctor Peter Birnbaum. [...]
Awhile back, I asked you all a simple question, “How can I make this blog and website better?” I got some great feedback. One of the suggestions I received was to embed heart valve surgery video clips into the blog. I shared this idea with my programmer a few weeks ago. Earlier this morning, my [...]
For me, there is nothing better than patient inspiration.
That said, I am a lucky person. Ever since I had my aortic valve replacement and started this website, my inbox has been overflowing with inspirational thoughts from all different types of people from all over the world.
Recently, I learned of Esther Robinson’s inspirational story. At [...]