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What is heart valve surgery?

Heart valve surgery is used to repair or replace diseased heart valves.

Alternative Names:

Valve replacement; Valve repair; Heart valve prosthesis

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Top Cardiothoracic Surgeons - Heart Disease Community

- Feb 02, 2010
Hi, Does anybody know if there is a top 10 or top 100 listing of the best cardiothoraci...

Chronic Chest Pain after Mitral Valve Replacement - Heart Disease Community

- Nov 28, 2009
My mother had her mitral valve replaced on Oct 5, 2007 with a mechanical valve (she had rhe...

Post Heart surgery Hallucinations - Heart Disease Community

- Oct 22, 2009
2 weeks ago my father had surgery. He had a valve replacement and one bypass. Today he i...

Heart Valve Surgery - Heart Disease Community

- Dec 06, 2008
My mom, who is 70, had Heart Valve Surgery 2 weeks ago. She had the Mitral Valve replaceme...

aorta valve transplant - Transplants Community

- May 20, 2008
How long will it take to be fully recovered from this type of surgery, especially if your c...

Heart Surgey/Family planning - Heart Disease Community

- Feb 10, 2008
I have had two open-heart surgeries. I had an ASD repair at age 8. I was able to have 2 h...

Hear valve diagnosis for surgery - Heart Disease Expert Forum

- Dec 16, 2007
I was scheduled for open heart surgery to correct leaking mitral and tricuspid valves, both...

Heart Valve Surgery lead to Hemolytic Anemia - Heart Disease Community

- Oct 29, 2007
My father has gone for heart valve replacement on 13 July 2007 in Singapore and suffer comp...
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