Watchman Implant

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To understand how the WATCHMAN Implant works, it helps to know more about the connection between atrial fibrillation and stroke.

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, affects your heart’s ability to pump blood normally. This can cause blood to pool in an area of the heart called the left atrial appendage, or LAA. There, blood cells can stick together and form a clot. When a blood clot escapes from the LAA and travels to another part of the body, it can cut off the blood supply to the brain, causing a stroke.1,2
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If I do it, no more warfarin. I will still have a-fib, but not the blood clots that cause strokes.





Today (7 June 2923) we drove to St. George and met with Dr. Jared Crisafi that will be doing the procedure The Date is set for the 12th of July.

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2023-7-17 It has now been 6 days after the implant.

When I woke up I felt fine, but was confined to lying on my back for 24 hours.

The next morning I was released from the hospital but my right groin (where they shoved the device in) was stiff. That made walking difficult. I am not to lift anything heavier than a quart of liquid.

Most of the past few days have been spent in bed or short wandering around the house.

In October I return to the hospital to see if my heart has grown around the device. If so. I'm good to go.

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Two weeks ago I went to st. George to have the Watchman Devise DMRI'd to see if the heart tissue had grown over it properly. Tests reveled that my kidney function was low, and, fearing the die could damage them, they hydrated me and sent me home. I was scheduled to return yesterday at 6.00AM for a different procedure. This time they put a tube down my throat and took pictures usingTEE (transesophageal echocardiogram) to view how the implant was doing.



Arrow pointing to watchman device, Red Triangle = tissue covering device.

The DR. told me it was the best he had ever seen.