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	<title>Heart Valve Surgery Tips &#187; Open heart surgery</title>
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		<title>Open Heart Maze Procedure Cures A-Fib!</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/open-heart-maze-procedure-cures-a-fib/ option.</link>
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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 almost [...]]]></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 medicines. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Surgery Recovery &#8211; Happiness Is Running Errands!</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/open-heart-surgery-happiness-is-running-errands/ option.</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cardiovascular exercise]]></category>
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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 grocery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Heart Surgery &#8211; How Do Older Patients Recognize The Danger Signals?</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/open-heart-surgery-too-much-too-soon/ option.</link>
		<comments>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/open-heart-surgery-too-much-too-soon/ option.#comments</comments>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Heart Valve Surgery &#8211; Where Should You Be Seven Weeks Post Surgery?</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/open-heart-valve-surgery-7-week-follow-up-with-cardiologist/ option.</link>
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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 [...]]]></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/ option.</link>
		<comments>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/open-heart-surgery-rehab-was-hard-today/ option.#comments</comments>
		<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>Valve Repair Surgery &#8211; Muscle Cramping After Open Heart Surgery?</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/valve-repair-surgery-still-cramping/ option.</link>
		<comments>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/valve-repair-surgery-still-cramping/ option.#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m puzzled today.   For the past couple of weeks or so, I&#8217;ve had muscle cramps in my fingers, toes, arms, calf and side muscles. I think muscle cramps are fairly common post valve repair surgery.
Dr. Blake, my cardiologist, ordered a BMP to determine if I was low in sodium, magnesium, or potassium.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Valve Surgery &#8211; Hurrah,  I Got Off The Oxygen!</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/heart-valve-surgery-hurrah-i-got-off-the-oxygen/ option.</link>
		<comments>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/heart-valve-surgery-hurrah-i-got-off-the-oxygen/ option.#comments</comments>
		<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 house, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Heart Surgery &#8211; What Causes Muscle Cramping?</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/valve-repair-open-heart-surgery-muscles-cramping/ option.</link>
		<comments>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/valve-repair-open-heart-surgery-muscles-cramping/ option.#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Recovery From Open Heart Surgery &#8211; Handling Emotions After Heart Surgery!</title>
		<link>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/valve-repair-open-heart-surgery-surprise-at-first-rehab-evaluation/ option.</link>
		<comments>http://heart-valve-surgery.net/valve-repair-open-heart-surgery-surprise-at-first-rehab-evaluation/ option.#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a part of my recovery from open heart surgery, and prior to doing my rehab today, I was scheduled for my first rehab evaluation.
Now, I&#8217;m thinking that this evaluation would be about my progress on the various exercise machines, what I think about the New Heart Rehabilitation Program, how well I think I&#8217;m doing [...]]]></description>
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