Syndrome?

Posted by ronludington @ronludington, 1 day ago

How do they know if you have one of those syndromes or irregular valves ?
Does a ct show it or what ?

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I’m not sure what syndromes you are asking about, but my aortic valve is checked every year through an Echocardiogram, that’s how they found it was bicuspid about 12 years ago, now that I had my aneurysm repaired it gets monitored to check how much it deteriorates every year, at some point hopefully several years from now it will have to be replaced, but now it can be done endovascularly since the aneurysm is no longer there

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@houston13

I’m not sure what syndromes you are asking about, but my aortic valve is checked every year through an Echocardiogram, that’s how they found it was bicuspid about 12 years ago, now that I had my aneurysm repaired it gets monitored to check how much it deteriorates every year, at some point hopefully several years from now it will have to be replaced, but now it can be done endovascularly since the aneurysm is no longer there

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I think it's called Marfan syndrome. I wonder if a ct would pick up the bicsupid valve ?

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As far as I know, Marfan will show physical indications, long limbs, fingers, curved spine, etc and there are genetic tests to confirm. I’m not sure CTs will detect bicuspid I know echos do

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Some connective tissue disorders can be tested with genetic testing FYI like Marfan's (https://marfan.org/expectations/genetic-testing/) for example. They also kept asking me a series of questions to check for connective tissues issues which stopped after getting full genetic testing like abnormal back pain and question about joints.

Irregular valve is an echo.

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