Hi Anne,
I'm not sure if you not Not Aorta means you dont wish feed back on this valve or not, but I can respond about the Open Heart. I have had three open heart surgeries in my 63 years, all taking place in the late 1960's to 1976. In those dinosaur days, there was nothing like O2 readers, but I can mention that often times after surgery I had very difficult times breathing and I am sure my O2 was very low. Most of the breathing problems were from the sternum; it hurt to try and take a deep breath.
I did go to our local hospital to be checked out:
Blood pressure, an EKG machine the size of a desk top, some deep breath s (yeah right) I was only 11 years old and I had what is now known as panic attacks. But always they said I was alright.
Took a few visits to my cardiologist to confirm every thing was normal.
Anyway, that's my story.
I hope this helps in any way, Anne.
Ken
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ken levine
volunteer, retired
802-236-8186
kenpaullevine@gmail.comMiddlebury, Vermont
05753
United States of America
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-08-2020 10:40
From: Anne Birdsong
Subject: Atrial Septal Aneurysm, anyone?
Hi, my name is Anne, and I'm a newbie here. I had open heart surgery three weeks ago today for two things: to close an ASD, and to correct an Atrial Septal Aneurysm. The ASA was classified as "giant", measuring more than 3cm, and pretty much occluded my entire right atrium. Recovery has been going pretty well, I guess, but I did have to go back to the hospital for a few days a week ago due to low O2 sats, trouble breathing, and pain. They treated me with lasix and I improved. The O2 sats started dipping a lot again yesterday, too, but I was able to treat with lasix at home and it improved.
Anyway, has anyone else out there had surgical repair of an ASA? Not aorta.
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Anne Birdsong
Occupational Therapist
Rural
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