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Hi,
Well, I’m going to have to pursue some sort of treatment. I hope I can qualify for robotic surgery but I’m not sure. The Cleveland Clinic has an algorithm that determines if I qualify. I also require CT imaging. I guess they look for plaque in the femoral artery and other places. They say safety first.

If, not robotic, I probably wouldn’t qualify for the minimally invasive either. So, that would mean the open heart surgery.

From what I have read, the sooner the better. Even without symptoms, my heart is being over stressed and damage is inevitable. +4 MVP.

I also looked at the chances of mortality. The Clinic lost 1 in 2000 patients. So there’s that. So, they either fix it or I won’t care. I guess that’s a win-win right?

Anyway, thanks for the information.

If you or anyone has any experience with this, or can give me more details about something I missed, please do.
My brother-in-law had the open heart surgery for the same pathology as I have. But, he wasn’t very helpful. Didn’t know much, how they diagnosed it, or even why they decided on the open heart surgery. He seemed to think that while they were doing the repair, they noticed arterial blockages so they did a double bypass. This, I don’t know and I think that they knew before the surgery that he had blockages and that’s why they did the standard surgery.

I’ll find out in a couple of weeks what the doctors decide. I’m seeing the cardiologist that specialises in imaging, first.

Lou