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Aortic Aneurysms - 4.5CM - Bicuspid Valve

Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Sep 25 10:07am | Replies (30)
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@rogerdhorton

If still uncertain, I assume it would be possible to direct the Cleveland clinic to send the ECHO result to another clinic for a “second opinion” ? Not wanting to sound alarmist.

Best of luck and good fortune from a fellow warrior / worrier 🤕

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Fighter | @niravani | Sep 24 5:00pm

Even Cleveland Clinic cardiologist came back stating that is a great news. She will call me on Thursday to review this report. When it comes to Aorta and defining size and accuracy, CT is the gold standard and measurement of ECHO should not even be bothered.
ECHO is a good tool to analyze four chambers of heart, blood pumping, valves and functionality of those valves, stenosis etc. Just not the Aorta and measurement.

I am good with CT scan results now.

Good news is that, Since December 2023 when I first found this to now through three different CT scans using three different CT machines (I had CT done at different locations within the hospital franchise here), they all shows stable and 4.5/4.6 reading.

I focus on daily exercise (elliptical and walk) for 1 hour, no drinking of alcohol and controlling blood pressure through couple of medicines. Hope that will do it as long as possible and when it comes a time to operate, it is what it is.

Thank you all on this chat to listen and sharing my experience.

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