Heart operation risks
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what would be surgery risk for re-operation for avr replacement for a healthy 62 year old, with no major (liver, kidney, lung) disease in which a Bentall procedure was done in the first operation done 8 years earlier? also, what would the complications risks be for each related, possible complication?
Every surgical operation has its risks depending on your age or if you have other comorbid conditions (hypertension, diabetes, stroke, etc). Complications include difficulty of breathing, heart problems, kidney problems during or after the operation, though these can be minimized with proper pre-operation evaluation (usually by an internist, or cardiologist).
Hi, my name is Khaldoun Al habib and i am 32 years old I would like your advise on a heart surgery that i will undertake on Novermber 2010. In 1999 i had a correction to a coarctation with a 20mm Dacron interposition and in October 2000 i excised a bicuspid aortic valve, replaced with a 24mm cryopreserved aortic homograft. A couple of weeks ago i was admitted to hospital with left heart failure, pulmonary oedema and orthopnea.
In my understanding after operation he can consider about one year as a healing time. I did not have operation, but was recovering from my heart failure. 1 YEAR I needed to feel well and no pain or very occasional pain. He must be sure NOT lifting heavy things. When I had lift or was letting stress in my life, all turned out of some sort of pain. Those are the 2 mayor things he should watch for. Change all stress for love,(easier to say, but must try :)) and …do the heavy lifting for him!!
Hello, My father will be undergoing his thir heart surgery next month. He had surgery for an aortic anuerysm and replace his aortic valve in 1993; this was follwed by another surgery to replace the then leaking aortiv valve in 2002. This valve is leaking again and may be casing his mitral valve to be leaking also. He is currently 80 years old and in (relatively) good health (eats well/exercises).
I'm so sorry for your loss of your mother. The risks should have been told to her and may be in her paperwork that she signed at the doctors and hospital.
I'm supposed to have my ICD leads looked at and repaired/replaced and been warned of the risks - the procedure is pretty risky and can cause all kinds of complications.
I would speak to an attorney in your area to see about medical malpractice and to subpeona her records to see what happened.
Is there a method with which I can find out the status of the heart consequent to RF Ablation.
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It was discovered 2 years ago that my father had an aneurysm on his heart (1.4mm i think) and was told this was borderline for and operation. 6 months later the size was unchanged. Another 6 months later the size was unchanged. 1 year after that, it has grown (1.7mm) and in addition a second aneurysm has appeared right next to the first. The surgeon has said an operation is REQUIRED.
Im so confused and my addict brain is telling me ,,,see you didnt have these problems when you had me in you. Its been a rocky journey physically for my health and my poor lil body and now heart. I got mono (3rd time) several weeks after detox,,I passed out in Jan and was diagnosed with neurocardiogenic syncope syndrome that stemmed from a bout of constipation that ultimatly put me in the hospital having to get a blood transfusion because I tore my bottom.
Have you looked up PM/ICD surgery risks on the American Heart Association or googled it to see the risks? There are NO guarantees with any surgery - just risk factors; I had an ablation and I was one of the <1% that had major complications and flatlined during surgery 3 times, but flew through the PM/ICD implant and had no problems.
Consider this - my PM/ICD was $81,619, leads $23,543 ($105,000 total) that doesn't include doctors, hospital, meds, OR, recovery etc....
May it be the risk of aggravating the pain or condition or developing complications such as infection of heart and lung problems. These risks can be present even at the hands of the most experienced surgeons. However, this risk should be balanced with the potential benefits that you could get from the operation. All of your concerns are founded and I suggest you discuss all of these at length with your surgeon.
There is a small risk of death or permanent disability from the surgery, but the risk of death from severe valve disease is 100%. Good cardiologists don't recommend heart surgery unless and until the risks of doing nothing are clearly greater than the risks of the surgery.
I would pick the best surgeon I could find and then let him pick the type of implant. With an animal valve, blood thinners are not required unless the patient needs blood thinners for some other reason.
Many individuals following open heart surgery have a memory problem for about 6 months post operation. Open heart surgery puts the individual on heart and lung machine so the fibrosis is probably not an issue during the operation.
The main problem with the heart is the valve orifice and that can be corrected without open heart surgery (sometimes). The aorta regurgitation can be the cause of shortness of breath as well as the pulmonary issue. What is the operation expectation.
As you have already researched this operation and its risks, you know it can cause sepsis and deep vein thrombosis. In either case a clot can form in blood vessel and travel in the blood and get lodged in any blood vessel causing pulmonary embolism, stroke, blindness, heart attack etc. This could have happened in the patient’s case your surgeon was talking about.
My husband's 9 month old stent is blocked vja heart cath on 1/23/2009. No mention was made to clear the stent; I was in the shock mode and didn't ask many questions. His heart cath "pictures" are being sent to another heart specialist in another town. Our heart doctor didn't think anything could be done. I'm not ready to quit. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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