MECHANICAL VS PROSTHETIC VALVE | PHARMACIST EXPLAINS

[@chuckrenard1537]

Hey Kel, great to hear from you.....awesome overview on replacement heart valves.

[@pharmerkel]

Thank you!l

[@80sunshine21]

Hi! Kel! Nice to see you again.Thank you for this information. Very interesting. You did an excellent job of explaining that. Enjoy Texas. Great state! Thanks again, Suzy AZ USA (hot here too!)

[@pharmerkel]

Thank you! Hope you’re staying cool in AZ!

[@ΙωάννηςΚώσταλος]

First week of October is my surgery. 39 years old, bicuspid aortic valve with moderate to severe regurgitation and ascending aortic aneurysm 4.9cm. I met many surgeons and i decided who it will be. He will send back to the company that makes the corcym haart annuloplasty rings my data from my CT coronary angiography and my transesophageal ultrasound so that they say the success rate of going for aortic valve repair. If surgeon gets the green light that's plan a. But that means full sternotomy. If not minimally invasive benthal with the corcym bicarbon mechanical valve, which needs low anticoagulation from day 1 and uou can even stop sintrom for 4-5 days safely and have another procedure (dental for instance). I just returned from the capital to the island where i stay by plane. Next week i travel there with wife cause months ago,before knowing or expecting any of this, we got into a program for in vitro fertilization. And after i give sperm in a couple of days i go into surgery. Which means my wife isn't and won't be there with me. My parents will. They are not ok. They are afraid and crying and miserable even though they don't want me to see. But i see it. I am in a shock still. I feel like all this is happening to another person and not me. Or that i will wake up and it was just s bad dream. I feel like i am out of my body, disassociated up to a level. I'm afraid of the aneurysm till the day of the surgery cones and for the afterwards. I feel like it will never be ok again. I'm afraid but primarily I'm shocked. A few days ago i was planning my year, job , master's degree, family and now....is this really happening to me?

[@PankajKumar-ub2bo]

How are you brother same problem me

[@69ztang]

Welcome to Texas! Was your valve affected by your dissection? I have an aortic root aneurism of 4.8 and a dissection or tear is my biggest worry but I’m also bummed of having to have the valve replaced because of the aneurism deforming it.

[@pharmerkel]

Yes! I had an aortic valve replacement only because of my dissection. My surgeon didn’t know if my valve would need to be replaced until I went under since my surgery was emergent. If your surgeon can save your valve that would be great but sometimes it’s not possible unfortunately

[@ΙωάννηςΚώσταλος]

Did you have an ascending aortic aneurysm that ruptured? What size was it?

[@pharmerkel]

Yes I had a 5.7cm ascending aortic aneurysm that I didn’t know about until it dissected

[@ΙωάννηςΚώσταλος]

@@pharmerkel bicuspid aortic valve?

[@pharmerkel]

Nope! I have a connective tissue disorder

[@tobylong6973]

Oh you have to take blood thinners because of you mechanical valve

[@pharmerkel]

Yes!