← Return to Kommerell’s Diverticulum with aberrant right subclavian artery

Discussion
Comment receiving replies
@jl2rogers

Thank you for your reply. May I ask where you are being treated? I hope everything goes well with your second surgery if needed. My physician said it’s very rare for it to rupture but then told me to keep something on me with the diagnosis just in case. He said otherwise just live life normally. I have 2 little ones and the idea of it rupturing terrifies me. It’s just so hard to find info on it and I’m not sure how familiar my cardiologist is with it. When giving me the results of my MRI he didn’t even mention it by name but I asked about it because I had already read the MRI report on my my chart Before seeing him. Then after I asked about it is when he said we would scan again in a year. If I wouldn’t have brought it up we wouldn’t do anything. I feel like from what o have read it doesn’t seem like it’s a problem until later years of life but I kind of feel like a ticking time bomb. It’s very unsettling.

Jump to this post


Replies to "Thank you for your reply. May I ask where you are being treated? I hope everything..."

It is very unsettling and difficult to not think about. I live in B.C. and my surgery was at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, B.C. - I live on Vancouver Island. Sadly, the Mayo Clinic is not an option for me unless I win a lottery. There is a 2016 study out of Virginia that says KD's should 'be called Kommerellis Aneurysm and not Kommerellis Diverticulum because of their unpredictability and catastrophic nature' and it goes on to explain why. My surgeon called it an aneurysm but my cardiologist now feels as your does that it shouldn't be under the aneurysm umbrella, that they are unlikely to rupture or rare to rupture but considering what we have is very rare, it seems par for the course. I hope this isn't too much negative stuff and I apologize if so.