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Hoping that your surgery went well this morning and that you have a rapid and complete recovery.

Best wishes for a successful surgery and a rapid and complete recovery.

Hi and welcome. Nice to see another septuagenarian on here. (y) With respect to Aortic Aneurysm, I am puzzled by your Dr. advising you to slow down due to risk of a tear at a measurement of 4.0. Are you seeing a cardiologist? Is there some other factor than the AA that's driving that advice? I...

IMO, the progression rate of an AA is highly variable. Case in point - mine: First diagnosed at age 53 @ 4.7. Took 15 years to get to 5.0 and stayed at 5.0 for another 3 years until my BAV was the deciding factor to proceed with surgery. YMMV Monitoring an AA with periodic testing is almost...

Interesting info that I had not heard before. Thanks for posting. My story, just for an informal data point: My family history is dismal: Paternal GF died late 60s from long-term cardio disease. Father died from long term cardio disease early 80s. Both had multiple MIs before it killed them...

So, what company/valve will be used as a replacement? Best wishes for a successful surgery and a complete recovery. Will be watching for your updates as the optimist in me thinks I might be a candidate in 15-20 years - maybe sooner.

Best wishes for a successful surgery and a rapid and complete recovery.

Another experience of expecting blockage. Dominant family history and years of taking meds for high cholesterol. But the test showed 20% in one artery. Standard for intervention at CC was >80%. Statens worked for me. The test went fine. Cath in the right wrist.

Nasredin.....would like to hear how this works out for you.

Lots of good advice here. I went to CC in Cleveland because they had a first rate surgeon AND first class facilities AND first class staff that contribute to their record of achieving excellent outcomes. At CC no matter who the lead surgeon is, it is likely that a resident will open and...

Have only decided to use the ignore feature a few times on this forum, but it does happen.

Best wishes for a successful surgery and a rapid and complete recovery.

Similar to Unicusp.

I had an excellent experience with CC, including all financial aspects. Understand not willing to go forward without assurances of what your responsibility is. What is the reason for denial from the insurance company? Seems like this is the real issue?

Here's hoping for a successful surgery and a rapid and complete recovery.

My AVA was .9 at it's worst. I flew to Cleveland for my surgery at CC. However, this is just a data point, not an opinion or recommendation.

Chuck summed it up perfectly.

In my case: For a while a combination of an Ace Inhibitor and a Beta Blocker Later a combination of an Ace Inhibitor and a Calcium Channel blocker Boyh combinations gave me a resting HR in the high 40s. One cardiologist felt that was a good thing for the deteriorating BCV.

He is well educated and experienced, although most of his experience was in Columbia. Also, well published. If you look him up on Linkedin, you can get a good summary: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-pablo-uma%C3%B1a-mallarino/es HTH

Well...Congratulations. Based on your presence on this forum, it could not happen to a more deserving person. BTW, congrats on 88 too. That's another milestone that few of us will see!!!!