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	<title>Heart Valve Surgery Tips &#187; heart valve replacement</title>
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		<title>Heart Valve Surgery Recovery- Pacemaker Implantation Complication!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naturally, with heart valve surgery recovery you want everything to go smoothly. Heart Valve Replacement or repair survivors and their loved ones have been through an inordinate amount of pain, worry, suffering, and plain old hard work while trying to achieve recovery from their heart surgeries. And, that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m particularly bummed out about what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Valve Replacement Surgery &#8211; Pacemaker Complications After Open Heart Surgery!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I had my double valve repair surgery nine weeks ago, my cardiac surgeon thought before going into the surgery that I would need a heart valve replacement surgery on at least one of the valves, but since my heart problems had been caused by a lead extraction error while implanting a new pacemaker and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Valve Surgery Recovery &#8211; Yeh!  I&#8217;m Off The Lasix!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heart valve surgery recovery, as we&#8217;ve said before, is not a sprint, it&#8217;s definitely a sporadic marathon.  Just as soon as you get one thing licked, some problem rears its head. For some reason, getting off the Lasix (a common diuretic used after heart valve replacement surgery), has been extremely difficult for me. My cardiologist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Valve Surgery Recovery &#8211; Meds Create Havoc After Open Heart Surgery!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heart Valve Surgery Recovery &#8211; It&#8217;s been exactly two months since my double valve repair surgery, which just as easily could have been a double heart valve replacement surgery.  I was lucky enough to have mine repaired instead of replaced. Dr. Blake, my cardiologist, is trying bring my body down off of some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Surgery Recovery &#8211; Happiness Is Running Errands!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re making progress with your heart surgery recovery, when you can be happy about being able to run errands again. Before my open heart valve replacement and repair surgery, I detested running errands, but now that I&#8217;m getting stronger and feeling better I&#8217;m extremely grateful to be well enough to go to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Heart Surgery &#8211; How Do Older Patients Recognize The Danger Signals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since my open heart surgery, I woke up with two knees that looked like water balloons.  Boy, was I ever surprised and a little scared too. This means that my heart is not yet healed enough to prevent fluid retention. Dr. Blake had cut back drastically on my diuretics (medicines usually [...]]]></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>After Open Heart Surgery &#8211; Rehab Can Be Hard, Stick With It!</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/open-heart-surgery-rehab-was-hard-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heart-valve-surgery.net/?p=176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recovery after heart valve replacement or repair goes a lot faster when you join and regularly participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program. I&#8217;m fortunate enough to have access to the New Heart Cardiac Rehabilitation Program here in Albuquerque. It is a state of the art facility, with all the latest exercise equipment and programs, exercise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Valve Surgery &#8211; Hurrah,  I Got Off The Oxygen!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m free, I&#8217;m free at last!  No more oxygen for me.   Today, for the first time since my heart valve surgery more than six weeks ago, I can breath well enough on my own to not be on oxygen during exercise. I wasn&#8217;t using it at night or even while I was up around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Heart Surgery &#8211; What Causes Muscle Cramping?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After heart surgery, I was sent home from the hospital on heavy diuretics, and now six weeks after my surgery, I&#8217;m still on most of them. Most open heart surgery patients are on diuretics at least for a while after their surgeries. I&#8217;m now experiencing muscle cramps in my fingers, toes, hands, arches, arms, calves, [...]]]></description>
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