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I believe that the referenced recommendation in the ACC/AHA Thoracic Aortic Disease Patient Management Guideline is only for patients who have a current aortic aneurism or previously had an aortic dissection repaired, not for those that previously had a simple aneurism repair. I suspect this is...

I am sixty-nine years old and had my aortic-valve replaced and my ascending aorta-aneurism repaired with a Dacron graft 25-days ago on December 6, 2011, by Dr. Craig Miller at Stanford University Hospital. The surgery took 7-hours. My replacement valve is an Edwards Lifesciences 25 mm bovine...