I assume you have had an Echocardiogram, from that test they can tell you that surgery is needed, from my understanding it’s based on the stenosis of your aortic valve.
From my understanding, the stenosis is measured as mild, medium and severe, I had two echocardiograms, both showed I had severe aortic stenosis, which means you need surgery fairly quickly.
The two tests I have had since were to determine what procedure I would undergo, Open heart versus TAVR.
A week ago, I had something called a TEE procedure, which is a transesophageal echo cardiogram, basically they put you under, run a tube down your throat and do and echocardiogram from inside your chest.
This past Wednesday I had a heart cauterization procedure, they give you mild sedation and put a catheter thru an artery in your wrist that injects die into you heart and they track it so see if you have any other blockages that would prevent the TAVR procedure from being done, fortunately I did not have any blockages that would require open heart surgery to replace.
This coming week we meet with the surgeon to get the date set, at this point, I just want it over and hope the surgery is immediately after the visit with the surgeon.
I get the heart cathater on thursday this coming week , I guess that is to see if I have any other blockage or whatever. This morning they told me they would hospitalize me right after the heart cathetar and then schedule the operation about 3-4 days later.