Adam’s Heart Valve Surgery Blog

There never seems to be a shortage of inspirational emails waiting for me in my inbox.

Recently, I exchanged emails with Robin, a fellow patient recently diagnosed with aortic stenosis. As you can read, this is the second major health issue for Robin. Several years ago Robin fought cancer (Hodgkin’s lymphoma).

In her note to me, Robin mentioned something that I had never heard before - the negative impact of radiation on heart valve function. Specifically, Robin noted that her medical team believes that her stenotic valve was caused by radiation treatments used to fight the cancer.

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A few weeks ago, I found a wonderful video about the four heart valves and how they work inside the heart.

Earlier today, I located another interesting video about the heart and the heart valves. Specifically, the video clearly illustrates the anatomy of the heart and heart valves through animation.

Feel free to click the diagram above or the link below to view this video about heart anatomy.

Video About The Anatomy Of The Heart And Heart Valves

Keep on tickin!

Adam

Ever wanted to try your luck at being a heart surgeon?

Well, now you can!!!

A friend just sent me this link which lets YOU play the role of heart surgeon. It’s quite educational and… pretty hard.

Unfortunately, I failed my patient and the computer told me to call my attorney.

I hope you do better than I did!

Keep on tickin!

Adam

I was just reading an interesting book about heart health.

Did you know the heart pumps 1,800 gallons of blood through 75,000 miles of blood vessels… Each day!!!

Here’s an interesting diagram which shows the movement of blood through out the body:

Absolutely amazing what our hearts can do!!!

Keep on tickin!

A few days ago, I posted a blog about what normal heart valves look like.Well… Here’s a quick, interesting follow-up to that story.

I was just on Youtube.com and came across a very neat video which shows each of the four heart valves opening and closing within during heartbeats - the aortic valve, the mitral valve, the tricuspid valve and the pulmonary valve.

It’s a pretty fascinating video that shows not one but each of the four heart valves, so I thought I would share the link.

Click To Watch The Four Heart Valves Opening And Closing (Video)

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