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What Happens If Valves In Heart Stop Working ?

What happens if the valves in your heart stop working ?
posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2009
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my motherin law went in for heart surgery to replace 2 of her valves 4 days later she went in to a cardiac arrest and they are saying that it damaged heart even worse is it possibls for her to have transplant
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That's what causes heart attacks. You will die without medical intervention.
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What Happens If Valves In Heart Stop Working ?

my motherin law went in for heart surgery to replace 2 of her valves 4 days later she went in to a cardiac arrest and they are saying that it damaged heart even worse is it possibls for her to have transplant