Heart Failure
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John C. Bogle
John C. Bogle passed away yesterday. He was the founder of the Vanguard group. Why do I bring this up? Because he was a man that had serious heart issues beginning at an early age and he lived to be 89. When he was only 31, he had his first heart attack....
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The Future
Hello fellow survivors. About 6 months have passes since my heart attack in the middle of a bike ride. With my first cardiologist, I thought nothing but death lay before me, but when I had a second opinion about an icd, I found a cardiologist...
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Heart Failure and Transposition of the Greater Vessels
Transposition of the Greater Vessels Hi I had the OH Mustard procedure done at 8 months old. I never had the secondary surgery and never had any heart issues. This past March I was in heart block and had a pacemaker implanted then
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Suggestions for support groups
Hi everyone, would you please suggest any groups/resources that I can suggest for my mom to engage in? She is in her 60s, has had 2 CABG procedures and an upcoming stent procedure. It's been a difficult ride since she also had a wound infection from...
read morelatest replyDolphinWrite, January 17, 2019 3:50pm EST
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Heart Failure Symptoms
Hi, all, I posted a while back to share my experiences and inquire about heart failure. I've been in HF several times over the past 13 years since my mitral valve failed and I needed surgery. I've had three valve surgeries altogether between...
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Flash Pulmonary Edema and Heart Failure
I am new here but, have been reading the posts for about a month. I am still trying to get this new way of life figured out. All of you are very inspirational and encouraging. My story, 52 year old, female. Long history of high blood pressure
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Heart Failure Drugs
Wife currently going through an upper resp. thing. Lost her voice, coughing, sneezing, etc. Couple days ago, I had an intense bigeminy PVC event. I stopped using metoprolol and began carvedilol - cardiologist OK'd the move. The next day,...
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Heart Medication - Entresto
I have started low does entresto and i heve a deep cough . Is this common for entresto? Or is this due to the low 20% factor? Any experence with this medication out there?
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Heart Improvement
Hello. I have heard many times of improved cardiac ejection fractions. After a serious heart attack, the part affected was about 50% damaged, but the other areas were good, a stress test showing. The MUGA test, however, showed about
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Latest issue of HealthMonitor
Hello fellow heart warriors. I was recently featured in HealthMonitor magazine for an article on CAD. The article is on pages 18-19 but I wanted to share the whole issue as there is plenty of good information in it. If you right click and open the...
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