{"id":38183,"date":"2024-01-11T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=38183"},"modified":"2024-01-12T06:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T11:31:01","slug":"aortic-stenosis-patient-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2024\/01\/11\/aortic-stenosis-patient-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura&#8217;s Warning About Symptoms, Disease Progression &#038; Cardiac Catheterizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a very interesting and insightful email from Laura Holt about the symptoms, the progression, the diagnostic tests and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2019\/03\/04\/aortic-stenosis-mortality-incidence\/\">the dangers of aortic stenosis<\/a>. Considering that aortic stenosis is often under-diagnosed and under-treated, I wanted to share Laura&#8217;s experience with our community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/laura-holt.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Holt Aortic Stenosis Patient\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/>Laura Holt &#8211; Aortic Stenosis Patient<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Laura Says&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>Hi Adam,<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you are well. I&#8217;m not but I will be in a few weeks!<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to tell you briefly about an experience that I had recently that I believe other aortic valve patients should be warned about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a moderate aortic stenosis patient for a few years, and had yet another echocardiogram recently. This test showed that I am still moderate, and not qualified for a new valve. Since I&#8217;ve been feeling pretty horrible for over a year, this was very discouraging to me. I signed up for the new Expand TAVR II trial in the hope that I&#8217;d get the valve replaced sooner.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the trial, they requested that I have another heart catheterization since I hadn&#8217;t had one in 2 years. Well, when it was over, my surgeon came to my room and told me that the catheterization showed that my stenosis is severe now, which would explain my feeling so awful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/aortic-valve-stenosis-open.jpg\" alt=\"Aortic Valve Stenosis Closed Leaflets\" width=\"400\" height=\"397\" \/>Aortic Stenosis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My surgeon told me that as a result of this experience, he will listen to his patients more and the echocardiogram results less. I will be getting my new aortic valve in January. I feel that &#8220;moderate&#8221; stenosis patients should be assertive about having a cardiac catheterization if they are feeling really bad. It could save their life!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Adam, for all that you do to help so many people.<\/p>\n<p>God bless you and your family.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Holt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aortic-stenosis"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38233,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions\/38233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}