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Enlarged aortic root with a family history

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Thank you, for responding.
If you don't mind me clarifying, you had surgery at that point?

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moonboy | @moonboy | Dec 29, 2024

It was 42 minutes from the time I felt sudden excruciating pain, like tearing the skin off of my back, to being cracked open for emergency open heart surgery. UCSD La Jolla, June 28, 2015. They left me open but covered with a rubber sheet over the sternotomy for 3 days and then went back in to deal with some leakage around the graft. Then they buttoned me back up, left me in a coma for a few weeks, and I have been thriving ever since (albeit after 2-3 years of slow recovery).