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@luhn

I agree. Your comment gave me a lot of hope and some faith that perhaps I won't just plop over
one day with no warning, but can actually live with this and do wait-and-see approach with scans. My aneurysm was a complete shock to me also and it measures 4.6. I had a CT coronary calcium scan to see if I needed to start statins as I am "borderline" on the criteria. Calcium was zero...so that was great news. But had the wind knocked out of me with the aneurysm (dilatation) diagnosis. Soo encouraged to know that for some these do not require surgery and may never. Thank you for sharing your story!

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Same thing happened to me. Went in for CT Calcium score which was a 4 to see if I needed statins and they found a 4.7 ascending Aneurysm. I’m 59.