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Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit multispeciality academic center. The invented the Bentall procedure. I ended up having an emergent Bentall procedure during my open heart surgery Sep 10, 2024. I was having three major procedures done. We planned to not do it that day since surgery was already going to be about 8 hours. It was 4.7 at the mid ascending aorta and 4.8 at the root. However, the root ruptured and aorta tore so the Bentall was done. We had discussed 3 scenarios and options depending which is good because the surgeon had the materials ready just in case. I was in surgery between 10 and 11 hours and lost 3.5 liters of blood. I wouldn't blow of monitoring a 4.8 to 4.9 ascending aorta or root for "a couple of years" and would fire that surgeon. I still have a 4.6 cm ascending aneurysm on the native aorta on the distal end that we are monitoring with CT contrast and echos no more than a year apart. I have been getting care through Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Something we take for granted is that the aneurysm may not be the only issue going on. I was 60 when that went down. The aneurysm was found 2 years ago and 9 months later I was in open heart surgery and that wasn't really on the radar 2 years ago.