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@tallguy18 No Idea. It burst inside my chest. I never saw or felt it coming until it was there. That's why most people would have a sudden and complete dissection aren't here to tell you about it. @martinkennot and @houston13 are a couple of like dissection survivors as I understand (but then again they may have had elective surgery???). Peace.
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@moonboy you are so fortunate! My husband at 54 died from the dissection of an AAA. That was 29 years back. Negligence on the part of the hospital-not diagnosing it, time wasted before he was transported to a hospital that has cardiac units. He died on the operating table. Apparently, there was an aneurysm on a chest x-ray taken when he was 44 years old. Again, negligence.
@moonboy Mine was definitely not planned. I had no clue, no symptoms beforehand. Yes it was sudden and complete. The worst excruciating pain I have even felt, and so different from any other. I was scared because I could not relate it to anything else I had ever experienced. And lying in triage in the ER, it still didn't click what was happening.
My aneurysm was 6.5cm, which I didn't know. They did ask what kind of valve I wanted - and it STILL didn't click what was happening. Five minutes later I was going to surgery.
OHS, aortic graft, AVR.
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@moonboy mine was planned, at 5.2cm no dissection, but within 2 months of being found, surgeon told me it was actually larger when he removed it.