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Are there new breakthroughs for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm surgeries?
Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: May 20 11:34am | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
Hello Justin! My surgeon told me that they will go up through my groan, both sides and place a fabric covered stint at the saccular aneurysm to cut off the blood supply to the aneurysm. The part that has me really stressed out is that the colon gets blood from the arota and sometimes (1%) persons need to have some of their colon removed. I do no understand any of that and he explained it twice. Here again, I have a saccular aneurysm and it is from what I was told, more likely to repture than others. Mine is 1 3/8 " in length. Prayers for everyone. Best Regards, John
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My AAA is also saccular. Wondering...did you have the surgery? I'm anxious to hear more about EVAR. Can't seem to find much about it on here.
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Hi John,
It sounds like your surgeon is being more cautious than mine. I have a 3.2cm (1.25inches)saccular aneurysm on my abdominal aorta and also one measuring 2.3cm on my common iliac. Sounds like the one on your aorta is about the same size as mine and my surgeon says he won't operate yet but when it is time it will probably be the open surgery as I am still fairly young (47). I have also read that saccular aneurysms are more likely to rupture. Added to that, I also have anoher saccular aneurysm on my iliac, and I am female - all things I have read which would make an operation more imperative and yet still my surgeon doesn't want to operate. Maybe after my scan in May he might change his mind if it has grown. I will have to wait and see. In themean while I'm left very anxious and worried about exerting myself and am fearful of traveling anywhere where there isn't a good hospital within a 15 minute drive! I do not want to have to have the op but if I need it then I would like to get it over with. The recovery sounds bad (worse for women apparently) and the younger you are when you have it the stronger you are for the recovery. But it does sound like a life changing operation so it is really an unpleasant situation to be left in. That does sounds scary about the colon but if your surgeon recommends surgery I would trust them. Basically there is no good way to look at out situations unfortunately. We just need to hope it all works out. I have spent too many nights laying awake being terriefied. These days I try to pretend it doesn't exist. Neither are great!