http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2009/07/27/facts-aortic-valve-replacement/#comment-12551 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:37:17 +0000 http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2009/07/27/facts-aortic-valve-replacement/#comment-12551 One additional causes of a leaky aortic valve: having a bicuspid aortic valve, which is congenital (i.e., born with it). Over time a bicuspid aortic valve may present problems. My valve was diagnosed as leaky at age 28. Nothing had to be done until the leak got worse, which was 32 years later at age 60. And btw, none of my doctors realized it was bicuspid until I had the surgery to replace it (with a friendly, trouble-free bovine tissue valve.) Save the cows! Eat mor chikin. Oh wait, a cow was sacrificed for his or her pericardium to make my valve (and others, probably.) Poor cow; lucky me. One additional causes of a leaky aortic valve: having a bicuspid aortic valve, which is congenital (i.e., born with it). Over time a bicuspid aortic valve may present problems. My valve was diagnosed as leaky at age 28. Nothing had to be done until the leak got worse, which was 32 years later at age 60. And btw, none of my doctors realized it was bicuspid until I had the surgery to replace it (with a friendly, trouble-free bovine tissue valve.)
Save the cows! Eat mor chikin. Oh wait, a cow was sacrificed for his or her pericardium to make my valve (and others, probably.) Poor cow; lucky me.

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