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Hi
I’m curious which is a better measurement of the ascending aorta CT with contrast or echocardiogram?

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houston13 | @houston13 | 3 days ago

@gladifoundthissite CT no doubt

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martinkennot | @martinkennot | 2 days ago

@gladifoundthissite you can search it up (please do that). But I have both for different reasons. Echo is an ultrasound and can do live recordings, so then it can measure the pump action of the heart chanbers. This is how my heart failure amount is determined.
The Angiogram is a computer 3D model of the heart and aorta. Which is great to measure my aortic diameter at any point and spin it around in 3D. With the contrast it can see the blood flow into surrounding organs and vessels.
In triage in emergency the doctor did a bedside ultrasound and could see the 6.5cm aneurysm and my aortic dissection. This kicked off a whole bunch of excitement in the ER which resulted in my OHS soon after. I then had a CTAng to get the full picture which they would need for the surgery. They drew blood to see if I was having any heart attack.
I guess I was in shock and didn't know what was happening.
Like @moonboy - no one wants to get to this point.

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