Details of Heart Valve Replacement Double

It is a replacement of both the mitral and the aortic valve, or the entire left side of the heart. This type of surgery is quite uncommon and deadliest one.

May include:

• Fatigue
• Dizziness
• Lightheadedness
• Shortness of breath
• Cyanosis
• Chest pain
• Fluid retention, especially in the lower limbs

• Chest X-ray
• Cardiac MRI
• Echocardiography
• Electrocardiogram
• Exercise tests or stress tests
• Cardiac catheterization

Two ways to perform this procedure:

Open-heart surgery: Which is all about cutting your chest through your breastbone to perform the procedure after being connected to the heart-lung bypass machine for blood flow.

Minimally invasive surgery: Which involves using long instruments inserted through one or more small incisions in the chest to perform the procedure.

Of the surgery:

• Bleeding
• Heart attack
• Infection
• Valve dysfunction affecting replaced valves
• Irregular heart rhythm (arrhythmia)
• Stroke
• Death