It was the morning after my open heart bypass surgery at UCLA Medical Center, and I was sitting up in the ICU, feeling no pain thanks to a little bit of morphine. That's when my surgeon, Dr. Richard Shemin, and his staff happened by and shared some news about my operation to repair my leaky mitral valve.
"While we were looking at the heart," said Dr. Shemin, " we found a small PFO -a hole - and we repaired it with a patch." He noted they had not seen it until the TEE (trans esophageal...
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