🏈 Update on Freddie Kitchens...

[planomateo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Update on condition of @<a href="https://twitter.com/azcardinals">azcardinals</a> QB coach Freddie Kitchens: "During Tuesday’s practice Freddie Kitchens (cont) <a href="http://t.co/BM1ILZBJqT" title="http://tl.gd/n_1rkloop">tl.gd/n_1rkloop</a></p>&mdash; MarkDalton (@CardsMarkD) <a href="https://twitter.com/CardsMarkD/status/342300985584148481">June 5, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Thoughts are with him and his family.

He had some surgery on his aorta, prognosis is good.

 

[RTRGrad2006]

Wow, prayers for him and well done to those who recommended he go to the hospital.

 

[JoshB]

Wow hope everything goes alright.

 

[rammerjammer]

Read an article that said he had a defect in his aorta. The two man things I can think of would be an aneurysm or coarctation. Either way it is pretty dadgum serious. The aorta is the main artery (pipe) coming out of the heart that delivers oxygenated blood to the entire body. Glad surgery was a success. Get well Freddie.

 

[planomateo]

9 hours?


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Just hung up from talking to family member of Freddie Kitchens,He is resting comfortably after a 9 hour surgery to repair an aortic valve</p>&mdash; The Game (@TheGameWDGM) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheGameWDGM/status/342453574707601408">June 6, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[rammerjammer]

9 hours is a long time for valve replacement. I have been in on a valve replacement and there are several variables, but on average I would say normally it would be about half that. Crap the one I took part in was an aortic valve replacement along with two coronary by-passes. All of that was done in about 3 hours.

He is really young to have an AVR. Wild thing is now they are starting to do aortic valve repair percutaneously (through your artery in your leg) like they do with stents to your coronary arteries. It is fairly new procedure but it is being done. I want to say it is something like 2% of folks walking around have bicuspid aortic valve.(2 leaflets) where as normal is tricuspid (3 leaflets). Most folks with Bi-cuspid valves have issues with the aorta. He will be on a blood thinner for the rest of his life.

 

[planomateo]

He's walking - here's to a speedy recovery Freddie.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...e-kitchens-arizona-cardinals-qb-coach-walking