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	<title>Heart Valve Surgery Tips &#187; a-fib</title>
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		<title>Heart Valve Surgery &#8211; Maze Procedure Cures A-Fib!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maze Procedure performed by Dr. Levy during my open heart surgery three months ago was a rousing success.  Dr. Blake, my cardiologist, took the time to go over my last pacemaker interrogation results with me. There is no mistake, the graphs show that the incidence of atrial fibrillation in my heart has dropped from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Heart Valve Surgery &#8211; Where Should You Be Seven Weeks Post Surgery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now been seven weeks since my open heart valve surgery.  Today, I saw Dr. Blake, my cardiologist, for another follow-up appointment. She was very happy with my improvement since she last saw me only a couple of weeks ago. The fluid in my right lung has finally disappeared, and she felt it was time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Valve Repair &#8211; Pulling Drainage Tubes After Open Heart Surgery!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Levy, my heart surgeon, is still trying to get me to the point where the 3 drainage tubes from my chest can be pulled. They are in place to help drain the fluid accumulation which resulted from my valve replacement surgery or rather, as it turned out, a double heart valve repair surgery, Maze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Valve Replacement Surgery &#8211; Open Heart Surgery Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 6:00 A.M. on my  heart valve replacement surgery day. How do I feel? Honestly, my predominant emotion is optimism peppered with real excitement. I feel like I used to when I was about to start a 10 mile run. Today, I&#8217;ll start to get my life back. Today I&#8217;ll get either a tricuspid valve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Valve Replacement Surgery &#8211; Heart Surgery To Cure A-Fib?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m facing heart valve replacement surgery in just a few days.  And, after debating for more than a week, I&#8217;ve decided to take part in the Medtronic Concomitant Utilization of Radio Frequency Energy for Atrial Fibrillation/Persistent (CURE-AF/Persistent)study. The study will involve 75 U.S. subjects at 15 different medical centers. The study, as I understand it, [...]]]></description>
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