Angiogram - a surgeon (not my husband’s current surgeon) ordered an angiogram for my husband. My husband’s TAA (thoracic ascending aneurysm) was 4.8. The surgeon wanted to do surgery and he ordered the angiogram to see if there was other “work,” i.e., atherosclerotic blockages that would require adding bypass surgery to the aneurysm surgery procedure.

I had an angiogram prior to my ascending aneurysm repair. It is a normal and logical thing to do in my mind, my surgeon explained it to me, we don't want to open chests more than once, so the angiogram would tell us if there is any other condition that requires work so that we can do it all in one go. In my case I had no other issues, so my OH surgery was focused on aneurysm repair