How to maintain after mitral valve replacement

Update Date: 2022-11-29 Source: Network

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When it comes to mitral valve, patients with heart disease must be familiar with it. They may think of mitral stenosis and mitral valvular heart disease. Now let's talk about the maintenance after mitral valve replacement.

How to maintain after mitral valve replacement

First, patients with mechanical valve replacement need to take anticoagulants for life, and regularly go to the hospital to review PT to monitor the anticoagulant effect; patients with biological valve replacement need to take anticoagulants gradually reduced after 3-6 months, and stop using them within 1-2 weeks. We should keep a good attitude of optimism and calm, learn self-regulation, self-control, self-care, do not get excited, less angry, ensure adequate sleep, oral sedative hypnotics when necessary.

Second, because bacteria are easy to propagate in the artificial valve and cause artificial valve endocarditis, antibiotics should be used in time during tooth extraction, urethral dilatation, catheterization and colonoscopy; infectious diseases such as skin furuncle and tonsillitis should be treated in time. The central blood flow of bioprosthetic valve has good hemodynamic characteristics; the incidence of thrombosis is low, and lifelong anticoagulation is not necessary, but its life problem has not been satisfactorily solved, and most patients are facing secondary surgery;

Third: after heart valve surgery, the recovery of cardiopulmonary function generally takes 6 months to 1 year, so it is generally considered to resume work after 6-8 months of rest, and the labor intensity and workload gradually increase. Life care if the wound has healed, you can start to take a bath. Do not soak the wound directly in the bathtub or swimming pool before the doctor's permission.

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Mitral valve replacement should keep a regular life, be happy, be in a good mood, prevent injury and infection, take proper activities, develop good eating habits, which is conducive to postoperative rehabilitation.