“I am certainly no doctor, but I would think that Coumadin would be contra-indicated for a leaking heart valve.”
My wife underwent open heart surgery two years ago to have her Aortic Heart Valve replaced. It was calcified, which means two things: 1. it doesn’t close tightly and two, it’s restricted. In and of itself, it isn’t life-threatening, but it fosters two other problems that can lead to early death. Since the heart isn’t efficient ) i.e. it has to pump through a restricted valve it leads to a thickening of the heart muscle and secondly, since the valve also doesn’t seal, there is backflow through it which also causes heart muscle thickening because the heart is working to make up for the pumping inefficiency. Thickening of the Heart Muscle leads to heart failure.
So if PIAPS has a leaking heart valve, it’s not a trivial matter. BTW, they replace the valve with one from a pig, so Muslims can’t have this life-saving surgery.
Was told I need this within next ten years
Replacent valves are used from other sources than just pigs.
My 98 year-old mother had aortic stenosis (calcification of the aortic valve). I learned there are two newish surgeris for this. The first is “minimally invasive,” which means a slit in the chest. Easier than older surgeries which require cracking ribs. The other surgery is called TAVR and involves less anesthesia and is even less invasive.
On advice from her heart doctor, my mother chose the minimally invasive surgery. Four and a half months out, she is doing quite well.
The strange part is that her 96 year-old sister had the same problem at about the same time. She chose the newer TAVR and had completely recovered within a month.
So why wouldn’t Hillary have opted for this TAVR surgery a year or so ago? Nobody would have noticed her absence then and it is quite safe.
My mother had none of Hillary’s symptoms.
Something in all this just isn’t adding up.