I just found out my favorite local musician is going in for open-heart on an AA. And his friend, on Facebook mentioned that he had just had the surgery too. So I started messaging that friend and found out that they discovered his because he had a heart murmur. It was immediately scanned and scanned again so six months later and they decided they needed emergency operation for him because it grew so fast !They told him that he would not live six months more with it! But he is very lucky they discovered him at the point he was already at! And he’s fine now, better than ever. He did mention something about ask the doctor if you can “preserve the aorta”:By that he means keep your old aorta and not replace with a pig tissue. Apparently those grafts have to be replaced in 18 years.