Surviving a Sudden Heart Attack: Frank and Debbie’s Story
Surviving a Sudden Heart Attack: Frank and Debbie’s Story Each year, more than 800,000 people in the U.S. have a heart attack. While medical advances
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Surviving a Sudden Heart Attack: Frank and Debbie’s Story Each year, more than 800,000 people in the U.S. have a heart attack. While medical advances
Surviving a Widow Maker Heart Attack To say Joe C. is passionate about music would be an understatement. This 58-year-old father of two beautiful daughters
On a daily basis, Jessica manages multiple heart defects such as Tetralogy of Fallout (ToF), which is a cardiac anomaly that’s a combination of four related heart defects: ventricular septal defect (VSD), overriding aorta, pulmonary stenosis, and right ventricular hypertrophy. Along with ToF, Jessica also lives with
Some people use an LVAD for the rest of their lives, but for Chrissy, it’s a “bridge to transplant” while she waits to receive a new heart. Donor hearts are already difficult to come by, and because she is 6’1”, Chrissy needs a heart from a taller person. Her health journey affects not just her life, but the lives of her
In my case, the TEE showed that my mitral valve was so damaged that it had to be replaced. I wound up in surgery the very next day. Fortunately, everything went well. When I was ready to be discharged I found out that I would be on Coumadin for the rest of my life. During my discharge my doctors advised that I should