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I've been holding out to see where the FDA goes with the new ascending aortic stent that can be installed via TEVAR procedure: the Gore Ascending Stent Graft. It was supposedly in Phase 2 trials last year.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022529/
If my aneurysm increases in size next year, I probably need to stop waiting. (Or find one of these 19 centers running these trials.) It has held steady at 5 cm for a year and a half now. We'll see.
But I also have chronotropic incompetence, some sort of oxygen exchange abnormality, PVCs/PACs, a right axis deviation of EKG, and this new chest pain. And my doc just doesn't seem to give a poo. I have a number of other labs and imaging results that suggest a rheumatological component to all this. Given my genetics, likely Behcet's. None of that is being looked at, at all. It's more like, "Huh. That's interesting."