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The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association have come out with new recommendations. Recommendations from 2010 were that repair surgery should be done with the aneurysm reaches 5.5 cm. The new guidelines state 5.0 cm. Apparently, they lost patients by stretching to 5.5 cm. You might, therefore, be careful until you see your surgeon next week in light of these new recommendations.
Best wishes,
Joanne
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Joanne, thank you so much for your reply and for sending me the link...I am reading through it right now and thankfully am meeting with surgeon tomorrow because I'm beside myself with anxiety right now over this, especially considering the updated guidelines you have clued me in to. My surgeon was using the 5.5 cm guideline, but again since being discovered just a little over a year ago it has grown, from what I am learning significantly. I will be extremely careful now and thank you again!