Patient
My mother had congestive heart failure that they misdiagnosed as pneumonia. Luckily the pushing out of the fluid in the lungs that they did for pneumonia helped flush a great deal of the fluid out of her body but it took another physician at St. David's in Round Rock to diagnose her CHF almost a month later after her lower limbs swelled up so much they were "weeping". We finally got her home from the CHF inpatient stay and rehab to discover the toes on her right foot turning horribly red. Upon evaluation by her cardiologist they discovered that the TAVR value replacement surgery she had caused a blockage in the groin artery and she has to have another surgery to help get the circulation back and hopefully keep from her toes and/or foot from having to be amputated. I wouldn't send my worst enemy to the Austin Heart Valve Clinic in Austin Texas especially since I'm still not sure that she won't wind up dying due to a "complication" of the TAVR surgery. Run as fast as you can from these guys and find someone else to do your valve replacement.