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Celiac Artery Aneurysm: Anyone else with same illness?

Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Nov 16 12:44am | Replies (510)
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virtually all of us are in a monitoring phase as the risk of repair is greater than the risk of waiting and monitoring until the aneurysm reaches 1.4cm or greater.

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txkathy | @txkathy | Feb 19, 2019

Mine is only 11 mm, which is much smaller than 1.4 cm. However, the vascular surgeon says if it gets any larger at all, I will need surgery. I asked him if he has ever performed this kind of operation, & he said "no". So I have another CT in 6 months, & if it is any larger, I'm gonna look into UT Southwestern in Dallas.They have a lot of vascular surgeons there, & maybe one of them has performed this operation. Dallas is 3 hrs away, & I've been there several times to a GI doc, & she and everyone else we came into contact with UTSW were all just amazing!

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