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Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Sep 17 9:21am | Replies (14)
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The information you gave is wrong. Nonruptured Celiac artery aneurysms are operated on when they reach 2.0 cm — much much smaller than the 5.0 cm size you incorrectly described (according to National protocols established by vascular surgeons).
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So you’re saying that my 3cm celiac torn aneurysm that measured at 3cm a year ago should have been repaired already?
This does seem to make sense because last year it was at 3cm and nothing about the fact that it was torn was mentioned then. This summer I had to go to the ER for Coumadin poisoning and they took a cat scan and found the torn aneurysm and that hospital said they were going to have to transfer me to a trauma hospital for emergency surgery!
I asked why and the cardiovascular surgeon told me about my aneurysm so they shipped me off to the trauma hospital and when I got there their cardiovascular surgeon said that he too seen it but said “it’s not bleeding at this time so we feel you can safely be discharged. But you’ll have to come back at another time to get it repaired and said that I should see my own cardiovascular surgeon ASAP so I called to make an appointment with him and he said he wouldn’t see me unless the hospital said it was an emergency!
He was clearly annoyed and rushed to get to his other patients who had made appointment.
I said the hospital said to see you ASAP. He said that “all hospitals say that “
According to him the radiologist took a sonogram of the area and didn’t see anything. What? 2 cardiovascular surgeons seen it and he’s saying he didn’t see it. I was diagnosed by this surgeon for 2 years for the aneurysm and now he’s saying he didn’t see it?
What about those 2 other years? He said I had a 3 cm the last time I seen him a year ago. I asked him if it could burst and he said that it could “but we have ways to deal with that “
Do I have to wait until it bursts? Seeing that a burst aneurysm is usually fatal that wouldn’t give me much time between the burst and the hospital ER.
Then he started to dash for the exam room door and said “see you next year!” He didn’t answer my questions except for one. Now I’m walking around not knowing if I could die that day.
I forgot to ask him about the size of the aneurysm and the size of the tear.
Maybe it’s nothing but I would like to know the size.