Charles Haas - Heart Valve Journal

Steven A Husted GREAT NEWS I PRAY YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT RECOVERY

Suzanne Moore That is wonderful! Very encouraging as I lead up to surgery. Thank you!

Emily Rowley That's excellent to hear you've making good progress during recovery.
May I ask how come they placed you on a blood thinner for mitral valve repair?
Also ... Read more

Charles Haas They use a ring to reinforce the mitral valve - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitral_valve_annuloplasty
and the month or so after surgery they want to ... Read more

Mitral valve annuloplasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitral_valve_annuloplasty

Mitral valve annuloplasty is a surgical technique for the repair of leaking mitral valves. Due to various factors, the two leaflets normally involved in sealing the mitral valve to retrograde flow may not coapt properly. Surgical repair typically involves the implantation of a device surrounding the mitral valve, called an annuloplasty device, which pulls the leaflets together to facilitate coaptation and aids to re-establish mitral valve function.

Steven A Husted you are doing fine i love my cardio rehab phase 3 it helps to be around other heart patients

Sophia Ridley Charles, fabulous news - sounds like your recovery is going very well.
I've seen a number of posts where people are walking considerable distances in the ... Read more

Charles Haas Pre-surgery, I was walking 3-4 miles. Last week I was splitting this up into about two equal sized walks (starting from a total of 0.5-1 mile, but now I am ... Read more

Sophia Ridley Thank you. You sounded rather fit before op and it's paying dividends now, and must be very satisfying to cover such distance. I'm thinking of buying a pedometer ... Read more

Charles Haas Just paying back all the wonderful folks who posted when I was pre-op. I've got an iPhone which has a built in step tracker, and just before surgery got an ... Read more

Elaine Cutri Congratulations Charles! Best wishes on your continued recovery. Be kind to your body, time will heal and you'll feel good soon.

Ihn Kim Congratulations for your successful surgery and steady recovery! I have one quick question if you don't mind..
Did you arrange VN and PT before you went into ... Read more

Gerald Schaffer Congrats on being home. You'll find your recovery will go so much better now that your out of the hospital, eating good food and not being woke up every 4 hours.

Charles Haas Ihn - I have always had all my health care (at least for the last 15+ years) in the University of Pennsylvania Health System) and have a pretty good benefits ... Read more

Jean Raber Ihn, my mother had her heart surgery at a smaller regional hospital, and visiting nurse and physical therapy were arranged before she left the hospital by the ... Read more

Liz Burroughs I'm glad that you had a successful MV repair & that you're back home. Good luck w/your recovery!

Tammy Pilcher Praying for you to be in the 95% Charles. God bless!

Enrique K Hope all goes well Charles!

Jean Raber Here's hoping for the repair, Charles! I was happy to learn this is the probability for me, too. Pretty sure they'll ask you what kind of valve you prefer if ... Read more

Bob M Prayers for Charles

Charles Haas Thank you all. My wife and I have very good confidence in my surgeon and the entire team, so will go with his recommendations. I have been totally impressed ... Read more

Nancy D Welcome to the group!
There is a wealth of information here and folks of many different experiences that love to share information and encouragement! There ... Read more

Mary Ann Espelage Hello, Charles, my cardiologist and surgeon also recommended the traditional open heart surgery. I trusted my doctors and went that way. while I had a little ... Read more

Tammy Pilcher Hi Charles, I had my bicuspid aortic valve replaced and an aortic root enlargement on Oct. 31,2014. My surgeon did what he called a hemi-sternotomy, which ... Read more

Sonny Abbasi I have heard Penn is very good from somebody who had a procedure there. But that is just one person.

Susan Wozniak I had minimally invasive three weeks ago. Very Littlr pain but he numbed the area and it is still very numb. I was in the hospital four days. At about 2.5 ... Read more

Tom Elliott Hi Charles. I also had mitral regurgitation and had a valve repair via full sternotomy. My surgeon was also planning to repair the tricuspid as long as I was ... Read more

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