When i was 14 I was diagnosed with a moderate aortic bicusspid valve. I am now 19 at my first cardiologist appointment I was still at moderate. Three months later when i went back in I was rediagnosed with a severe aortic valve. I have every symptom, and I'm getting ready to have it repalced. My question is what am I to expect after surgery. Will i be able to work if not is there anything I can do to have some sort of an income comming in?
Ask your surgeon. There are details specific to the type of valve you are going to get. In the meantime, here's some reading so you have more of an understanding of the answers.
There are minimally invasive approaches, and there are many different techniques of valve surgery and all valve replacements, with choices to provide each patient with the best possible treatment.The patient will normally choose, with their surgeon, the type of incision, the type of valve and the technique. Valve repair versus valve replacement, with coronary artery bypass if necessary. The choices will normally depend on the patient’s opinion, their health history, and their surgeon's opinion. After successful aortic valve replacement, patients can expect to return to their preoperative condition or better. Anticoagulation (blood thinners) with a drug like Coumadin may be prescribed for 6 weeks to 3 months after surgery for those with biological valves, and for life for those with mechanical valves. Once the wounds have healed, most patients should experience few if any restrictions to activity. A patient will require preventative or prophylactic antibiotics whenever having dental work, and should always tell a doctor about their valve surgery before any surgical procedure. Hope this helps Matador 89
You will be fine. The replacement valves last for a very long time and give you great performance. I assume that you haven't yet started to experience heart failure. If the heart is in good condition then the chances that you'll have a completely normal life are excellent.
The goal with every surgery is to get the person back to a normal physiologically functioning condition. Replacing an aortic valve or any valve in your heart will not inhibit your from performing any of your tasks. Almost all people go on to live normal healthy lives. Exercise and even athletic competitions are well within the norms of someone with a heart valve placement. In the 10+ years in nursing, I have never met anyone who needed to be on disability and needed a supplementary income. Hope this helps.
confident you could have continually had this, that's some thing you have been born with. a classic aortic valve is tricuspid, it is it has 3 last flaps, yet a bicuspid valve purely has 2 flaps. sometimes those bicuspid valves provide no issues, yet in some human beings they could bring about coronary heart murmur later in existence ( oftentimes on your 30s or 40s ) simply by fact they permit a sprint blood to leak returned the incorrect way while they are closed. If this gets intense sufficient, you would be able to choose surgical treatment to greater healthful a synthetic valve. that's enormously ordinary those days and not some thing to rigidity approximately.
