Seeing that it is the most major organ in the body and the one that makes the remainder of the body work, when something bad happens to the heart, fear is a rapid reaction.  Heart valve illness is when a valve in the heart doesn’t work the way it should.  It may be blocked from closing all of the way so not permitting blood flow to occur the way it wants to for the body to work the way it should.  When this occurs, heart valve replacement is an option to repair the problem. 

Each year, over 250.000 heart valve replacement surgeries are performed with only 2.4% ending fatally.  That may appear like a high percentage, but when working with any surgery on the heart, it is very low in all fact.  Each day we engage in activities that are just as dangerous.  Driving an automobile, flying in aplane, and crossing the street are all activities that would end fatally but usually do not.  One way to dispel any fear you have over this surgery is to recollect that and go into it with the positive outlook of how this is another potentially threatening activity you’ll do, but tell yourself that the chance of it being fatal is too small to risk not having it done.  If you need the surgery, get it done. 

One main problem that would make you need heart valve surgery is known as aortic stenosis.  This happens when a valve in your heart chamber doesn’t open fully.  It may occur from scarring or calcium deposits forming, but when a valve doesn’t open totally, less blood flows thru or it has to flow through a smaller chamber so not getting to the subsequent chamber.  When this occurs, there are two possible surgeries that will happen.  They can repair the valve that means correcting the part that’s hurt or they can replace it that means removing the sick valve and replacing it with one that works. 

The surgery sounds much scarier than it essentially is.  When heart valve replacement is needed, the doctors put you under anesthesia so you aren’t awake during it and then they physically stop your heart from thrashing but have a machine continue pumping the blood thru your body.  They then make an incision above your aorta, do the needed repairs and then stitch you back up.  The final scar(s) will be very small so there is actually nothing to worry about.

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