@moonboy - thank you for your post. Very encouraging to know. I also have just discovered 4.3cm dilation on ascending aorta and have been surfing the web looking for answers. Did you smoke or have family history? As I was reading about dissection or rupture outcomes , happy you made it full recovery and continue with life. Did you make any life style changes after being sick? Thank you
@ronludington - this was a great advice and words of wisdom from moonboy. I lost my mom to a stroke close to two years ago, she had high blood pressure and I wish I took her for a scan 😭 but in general she didn’t like any doctors and treated it on her own natural remedies . I was so unaware of how fatal high blood pressure can be and was not educated at all on heart/brain health. I wish I could return the time and force her to go to the doctor. Anyway, after loosing her and time passed by i was very alarmed and signed myself and my husband for lung and heart scan . Husband is solid as a rock and i came out with nodule on upper long and 4.3cm dilated ascending aorta. We are the lucky ones to discover it early and watch it now with proper care. Ugh 😣 im so upset about it and from what im reading it can’t shrink back on its own. Im also in Raleigh and belong to novant, so need to schedule a consultation with cardiologist asap. They do stents , my coworker just had it done (not sure details and if it was the same thing as she is still on FMLA) but they don’t do open chest surgery until you are 5.5 cm