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Measuring assending Aortic aneurysm length

Posted by ronludington @ronludington, Aug 9 8:11am

What do they use to measure the length, and how do you know if it's bad ?
I have a 46mm and that's the only measurement I find. They did a high resolution ct. I would have thought it could be measured,but maybe not. They also defined mine as dilated and not an aneurysm, I've seen that discussed a couple times, but really unclear on the difference. You would think 46 would be big enough to be called an aneurysm.

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ppiper | @ppiper | Aug 26 9:15am
In reply to @ronludington "Yes, I wish mine was shown like that" + (show)
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Yes, I wish mine was shown like that

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We had to root around a bit to find that image as prominent ones were all cross sections. The eUnity program included allowed 3D rotation as well as live action. Truly amazing.
Sounds like you may need to make the specific request for aortic length.
Best luck

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mleiva1234 | @mleiva1234 | Aug 26 11:30am
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We had luck measuring the length of the aneurysm from the images that were downloaded on the patient gateway. We opened that on our laptop. It seems to come ( at least from MGH) with a program that permits various operations when you open the image. . At the top banner, there is a ruler icon, click on that, bring cursor down to desired starting point. Left click and hold. Now, when you move the cursor, it draws a line to wherever you want the end point to be, and the measurement appears. Tricky but also amazing.
I was surprised to see a length of almost 9 cm. I’ll try to attach chart from the Yale article.

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Thanks for sharing the chart. With my height at 1.75 m and adding the diameter and length (4.8 cm and 11.3 cm) of my aneurysm, I am feeling much more confident in my decision to have surgery.

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ppiper | @ppiper | Aug 26 4:35pm

You know you’re still in the green, right? But, close to the yellow. Wish you a terrific outcome and quick recovery. Thanks for those articles- very helpful.

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ppiper | @ppiper | Aug 26 5:21pm
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Thanks for sharing the chart. With my height at 1.75 m and adding the diameter and length (4.8 cm and 11.3 cm) of my aneurysm, I am feeling much more confident in my decision to have surgery.

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And I remeasured myself ( posted on other thread as 10.1 + or - 1.0. You are also under the ‘hinge’ point mentioned in the article of 11.5 (another at 12.5). These seem to be like the diameter hinges of 5.5 and 6.0 with sudden increases in adverse events. Suggests you’ll be fine until surgery but completely understandable to not wait until at the actual points.

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