Aortic valve replacement

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Asked for Female, 41 Years

Hi, my father is 82 yr old. He has no symptoms of pain, no giddiness, not feeling tired. He is usually at home since 1.5 years due to covid. No walk nothing. During routine checkup, his ecg was not good. Showed abnormal beats. 2nd ecg after 2 days was normal. 2D echo showed left Aortic valve replacement. How long should we delay the operation as he shows no symptoms and he is 82 yrs. Any medicine to heal this? Any other treatment rather than open heart surgery? Please suggest.

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Dr. S. B. Nagori

Cardiologist 49 yrs exp Kolkata

Any Cardiologist will tell you—-

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Will require couple of tests

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Dr. Abhinav Chhabra

Cardiologist 12 yrs exp New Delhi

If it is severe aortic valve stenosis than Transcatheter aortic valve replacement is the option ( no open heart surgery required)

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Dr. Sivabal V

Cardiologist 11 yrs exp Thiruvananthapuram

Please share the Echo report

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Dr. Ajeya N. Ukadgaonkar Interventional Cardiologist 13 yrs exp Aurangabad · Accepted Answer

Dr. Ajeya N. Ukadgaonkar

Interventional Cardiologist 13 yrs exp Aurangabad

I need to see his reports. And correlate it clinically. Consult with all details

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