Celiac Artery Aneurysm: Anyone else with same illness?

About two weeks ago, after two days of worsening pain....starting with what felt like indigestion in my upper left abdomen with increasing low then full back pain....and an inability to find any position that was comfortable, or be able to eat, I went to an Urgent Care where they did all the tests, plus a CT, all of which were normal. They then suggested I head to our very busy ER. They, too, did all the tests, plus a CT. An attentive radiologist saw a barely visible anomaly in my celiac artery. They did another CT to confirm, told me I was going into surgery as soon as the surgeon, an Interventional Radiologist, and his team arrived at the hospital. Barely had time to call family, arrange for care for my dogs. The CT scan showed disruption of the celiac arterial trunk from dissection with intramural hematoma and development of pseudoaneurysm. The final “Impression” after the closed surgery was: Initial visceral angiography confirming an irregular dissection of the celiac artery and development of prominent, irregular pseudoaneurysm from the false lumen. Due to the irregular narrowed lumen, primary repair with stent graft placement was not possible. Alternative, successful coil embolization of the celiac artery trunk and bifurcation and left gastric artery to prevent further pseudoaneurysm growth and mitigate risk of rupture and hemorrhage.

So I got lucky. None of this showed up two months ago on a CT I have every year to monitor an aneurysm in my ascending aorta. I don’t know what caused it or what any of this means for the future. The surgeon had seen this before and was well qualified to perform this procedure. My experienced PCP had never seen this before. I live in central Oregon, in Bend, where I would not have thought my care could be so good. The surgeon was Dana Mann, MD.

Now I need to find out how to take care of myself. Diet, exercise, future monitoring. Wish my energy would come back. Maybe with time.
I was incredibly lucky and am so grateful to the fine people working at our one hospital, who cared enough to save my life.
Thank you for letting me share this journey with you. So glad I found you all.

About two weeks ago, after two days of worsening pain....starting with what felt like indigestion in my upper left abdomen with increasing low then full back pain....and an inability to find any position that was comfortable, or be able to eat, I went to an Urgent Care where they did all the tests, plus a CT, all of which were normal. They then suggested I head to our very busy ER. They, too, did all the tests, plus a CT. An attentive radiologist saw a barely visible anomaly in my celiac artery. They did another CT to confirm, told me I was going into surgery as soon as the surgeon, an Interventional Radiologist, and his team arrived at the hospital. Barely had time to call family, arrange for care for my dogs. The CT scan showed disruption of the celiac arterial trunk from dissection with intramural hematoma and development of pseudoaneurysm. The final “Impression” after the closed surgery was: Initial visceral angiography confirming an irregular dissection of the celiac artery and development of prominent, irregular pseudoaneurysm from the false lumen. Due to the irregular narrowed lumen, primary repair with stent graft placement was not possible. Alternative, successful coil embolization of the celiac artery trunk and bifurcation and left gastric artery to prevent further pseudoaneurysm growth and mitigate risk of rupture and hemorrhage.

So I got lucky. None of this showed up two months ago on a CT I have every year to monitor an aneurysm in my ascending aorta. I don’t know what caused it or what any of this means for the future. The surgeon had seen this before and was well qualified to perform this procedure. My experienced PCP had never seen this before. I live in central Oregon, in Bend, where I would not have thought my care could be so good. The surgeon was Dana Mann, MD.

Now I need to find out how to take care of myself. Diet, exercise, future monitoring. Wish my energy would come back. Maybe with time.
I was incredibly lucky and am so grateful to the fine people working at our one hospital, who cared enough to save my life.
Thank you for letting me share this journey with you. So glad I found you all.

About two weeks ago, after two days of worsening pain....starting with what felt like indigestion in my upper left abdomen with increasing low then full back pain....and an inability to find any position that was comfortable, or be able to eat, I went to an Urgent Care where they did all the tests, plus a CT, all of which were normal. They then suggested I head to our very busy ER. They, too, did all the tests, plus a CT. An attentive radiologist saw a barely visible anomaly in my celiac artery. They did another CT to confirm, told me I was going into surgery as soon as the surgeon, an Interventional Radiologist, and his team arrived at the hospital. Barely had time to call family, arrange for care for my dogs. The CT scan showed disruption of the celiac arterial trunk from dissection with intramural hematoma and development of pseudoaneurysm. The final “Impression” after the closed surgery was: Initial visceral angiography confirming an irregular dissection of the celiac artery and development of prominent, irregular pseudoaneurysm from the false lumen. Due to the irregular narrowed lumen, primary repair with stent graft placement was not possible. Alternative, successful coil embolization of the celiac artery trunk and bifurcation and left gastric artery to prevent further pseudoaneurysm growth and mitigate risk of rupture and hemorrhage.

So I got lucky. None of this showed up two months ago on a CT I have every year to monitor an aneurysm in my ascending aorta. I don’t know what caused it or what any of this means for the future. The surgeon had seen this before and was well qualified to perform this procedure. My experienced PCP had never seen this before. I live in central Oregon, in Bend, where I would not have thought my care could be so good. The surgeon was Dana Mann, MD.

Now I need to find out how to take care of myself. Diet, exercise, future monitoring. Wish my energy would come back. Maybe with time.
I was incredibly lucky and am so grateful to the fine people working at our one hospital, who cared enough to save my life.
Thank you for letting me share this journey with you. So glad I found you all.

I was in the ER today Due to adrenal crisis and ended up with a CT scan looking for kidney stones
The CT scan was never discussed upon My release and I didn’t even think about ask
After leaving and on my way home I read the CT report and it noted mildly aneurysmal celiac artery
My daughter was furious this was never discussed and called the ER they said it was seen on a previous ct scan and it hasn’t changed and they assumed I knew
Ummm nope never been told any of that and I went back to my last ct and it wasn’t noted there either
I would love to know how yours was found and I might if I keep reading the comments but would love more feed back

I was in the ER today Due to adrenal crisis and ended up with a CT scan looking for kidney stones
The CT scan was never discussed upon My release and I didn’t even think about ask
After leaving and on my way home I read the CT report and it noted mildly aneurysmal celiac artery
My daughter was furious this was never discussed and called the ER they said it was seen on a previous ct scan and it hasn’t changed and they assumed I knew
Ummm nope never been told any of that and I went back to my last ct and it wasn’t noted there either
I would love to know how yours was found and I might if I keep reading the comments but would love more feed back

I was diagnosed last year with A Celiac aneurism I have no one here to go till for the situation I didn't know if it was serious or not maybe somebody can tell me a little more about it I been Vomiting losing weight all the above

I was in the ER today Due to adrenal crisis and ended up with a CT scan looking for kidney stones
The CT scan was never discussed upon My release and I didn’t even think about ask
After leaving and on my way home I read the CT report and it noted mildly aneurysmal celiac artery
My daughter was furious this was never discussed and called the ER they said it was seen on a previous ct scan and it hasn’t changed and they assumed I knew
Ummm nope never been told any of that and I went back to my last ct and it wasn’t noted there either
I would love to know how yours was found and I might if I keep reading the comments but would love more feed back