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- Getting Started 
- Dispelling the fear
 - Anatomy of your heart
 - Anatomy of your valves
 - What are the symptoms?
 - Diagnosing valve disorders
 - What is a heart murmur?
 - What is an enlarged heart?
 - Echocardiogram types
 - Finding a surgeon
 - Research heart hospitals
 - Patient Success Stories
 
 - Symptoms & DisordersDisorders 
- Aortic aneurysm
 - Aortic regurgitation
 - Aortic stenosis
 - Atrial fibrillation
 - Bacterial endocarditis
 - Barlow's disease
 - Bicuspid aortic valve
 - Calcified aortic valve
 - Coronary artery disease
 - Leaking heart valve
 - Mitral regurgitation
 - Mitral stenosis
 - Mitral valve prolapse
 - Pulmonary regurgitation
 - Pulmonary stenosis
 - Rheumatic fever
 - Tricuspid regurgitation
 - Tricuspid stenosis
 
 - Treatment OptionsTreatments 
- Aortic valve repair
 - Aortic valve replacement
 - David procedure
 - Maze Procedure for Afib
 - Mitral valve repair
 - Mitral valve replacement
 - Ozaki Procedure
 - Pulmonary valve repair
 - Pulmonary valve replacement
 - Robotic mitral valve repair
 - Ross Procedure
 - TAVR procedure
 - Tricuspid valve repair
 - Tricuspid valve replacement
 
 - Your Hospital Stay 
- Waking up in the ICU
 - How long in the hospital?
 - The incentive spirometer
 - Overnight visitors
 - Patient Expectations
 - Potential complications
 - Worst things in hospitals
 - Compression stockings
 
 - The Recovery 
- Recliners for patients
 - Climbing stairs
 - Using two hands
 - 24-hour pharmacies
 - Cardiac depression
 - Cardiac rehabilitation
 - Mederma for incisions
 - The first sneeze
 - Emotional changes
 - ERAS Cardiac
 - Starting cardiac rehab
 - Heart pounding
 - High heart rates
 - Sternum clicking
 
 
            
                    
                    
                    
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