Yes! The local hospital and cardiologists couldn't find anything and even if they had, they weren't a good enough facility to even worth considering. I was at Mayo on Jul 22 and had a CT with contrast, called in for an angiogram with possible intervention on Aug 6th and an additional catheter procedure was done to collect data because not only was what they knew about too extensive, the found something else. I met with the head of cardiovascular surgery on Aug 12th, had a pulmonary catheter procedure on Sep 4th and open heart surgery on Sep 10th the last over 14 hours. Mayo Clinic Jacksonville was the only hospital in Florida that could have done the 4 major procedures that had to be done that day. Shands or Tampa General could have done 1 or 2 at a time. But it wasn't just that I was at Mayo in Jacksonville, it was the surgeon I had. He has done over 3000 open heart surgeries including heart transplants.