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How often do you get scans when there are no significant changes?
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Listen folks. The only people who know how to fix this problem are thoracic surgeons. It’s a very complicated vascular problem and a cardiologist is not qualified to treat it, respectfully. A cardiologist should not be advising a wait and see approach at 4.9cm. They should be driving you to the thoracic surgeon who is in the middle of an
Open heart surgery with another patient. Here’s a few pictures of me with my surgeon and a couple of my cardiac ICU nurses who saved my life. There isn’t a cardiologist within a mile. Cardiologist are trained in a completely different area of interventional medicine that has nothing to do with thoracic surgery and aortic repair. Peace.
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I agree 100%. Without getting into details, if i followed only the advice of my local cardiologist i would not be around now. Finding an experienced thoracic specialist who does this for a living at a large hospital with resources (in case you need to have the operation) is key from what I personally found out.
One more point from my experience is that depending who does the readings of the same scan, the results vary. My thoracic specialist does his own readings of the scan and does not use the ones done by the radiologist.