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Newly diagnosed and/or living with ascending aortic aneurysm…anxiety
Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Aug 17 10:10am | Replies (89)Comment receiving replies
Excellent explanation, just one clarification everything you described regarding the details of the surgery is true not only for an emergency disection but for an ascending aneurysm repair in general (you do say that right above item 1). I had an ascending aortic aneurysm repair in 2020 and followed pretty much what you explained, open heart surgery, and replacement of the section of the aorta where the aneurym was with an artificial graft, mine had not disected it was just large enough that needed repair.
As always, you provide excellent explanations that benefit evryone
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Just as an anecdote, the surgeon closed my chest with glue, you can barely see the scar, below it of course there’s wire that held the sternum together. That’s not an issue in the US and most western countries but I was traveling through India a couple of years ago and In most airports there, they use manual wands besides the normal pass through metal detectors, the wands did go off with the wire so I had to open my shirt every time to show them the scar ( they also went off with my titanium rods in my leg so also had to lift my pant leg)