It's been seven months since Max's last surgery -- an open heart pulmonary valve replacement -- and he has been cleared for all activities by his doctors.

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He holds a patent on a solution that can preserve organs and one on an aortic valve that can be implanted without highly invasive open-heart surgery.

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Natalie Camarata, Memorial Hermann's digital marketing manager, told Mashable the plan to live tweet the operation was hatched following the open-heart surgery, which was viewed an estimated 125 million times through Twitter, Storify and media coverage.

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The fact that Bextra, given with an injectable drug, increased the risk of heart attacks following open-heart surgery will also be included in the Bextra label.

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Although full data is not available, two studies using the pill and an injectible version of the same drug as painkillers for patients undergoing open-heart surgery have now shown it raises the risk of new heart attacks.

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