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Recent information reveals the true extent of my emergency
Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Feb 25 9:05am | Replies (12)Comment receiving replies
Hi there - hugs to you.
That is quite some surgery. Would you like to share what those 4 things were?
Are you all good now and on the mend? I know it's going to take some time 🙂
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Sep 10
1. Resection aneurysm on right coronary artery
2. Ligate complex coronary fistula from right coronary artery to pulmonary artery and from mid-Lad to pulmonary artery along with a nest of collaterals associated with it.
3. Triple bypass on LAD
4. After about 7+ hours, they took me restarted my heart and took me off the heart lung machine. However, Aortic root ruptured and ascending aorta split resulting in a ascending aorta, root and valve being replaced.
Surgery went from 7:30am to 10pm. The blood bank ran out of O- that day in a larger part during the 5 minutes he had 4 fingers plugging the hole to I was put back on the bypass machine which was 7 minutes total. That was another scary aspect of that day.
On the Sep 4th, I had a catheter procedure to block off a bronchial artery to the pulmonary artery that started high on the descending artery. It was blocked off with 12 platinum coils. The surgeon and others he consulted with agreed that blocking it before surgery was better than after surgery. It wouldn't be easy accessed during surgery.