Aortic root replacement.

[themalteser]

Hello all,
I see a lot of valve replacement anniversaries, but not a lot of aortic root replacement anniversaries.

Please, can you share your anniversary if you had your root replaced?

Thank you,

 

[pellicle]

I had mine done with a homograft in 1992, it was swapped out with a mechanical in 2011. Thus my anniversaries are over.

Back then there was no internet and I didn't know I needed to be anxious or what. So I just lived life as full as I could. This was taken about 10 years after my homograft

Whens yours?

 

[themalteser]

What are you doing there, Pellicle ?
That’s fantastic to hear about your anniversary! Thank you.

Can you please clarify what do you mean by swapped from a homograft to mechanical? Is that the valve or the root?

True, Internet is the main cause of anxiety! Overload of useless information!! I’m glad this site exists with people like you. It helps me so much.

Mine is probably next year. I’m now getting a second opinion and an echo as a stepping stone before a CT! If the size is the same, I may ask them to reconsider.

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

[pellicle]

Hi

What are you doing there, Pellicle ?

making mochi the traditinal way (one on the mallet, the other scraping, timing is everything)

That’s fantastic to hear about your anniversary! Thank you.

welcome

Can you please clarify what do you mean by swapped from a homograft to mechanical? Is that the valve or the root?

as best I understand it when a mechanical and a graft goes in that the root is no longer needed. I could be wrong there.

Mine is probably next year. I’m now getting a second opinion and an echo as a stepping stone before a CT! If the size is the same, I may ask them to reconsider.

ahh ... still information gathering ... I hope it all goes well. I encourage you to not obsess, to only read peer reviewed stuff and be ruthless in discarding the ones which show hint at being fluff, pointless or pushing an agenda.

Best Wishes Mr Matlteser

 

[pellicle]

PS: just after that above picture was taken I (being one of the few registered gaijin living in my -ku) I was one of the team carrying and jiggling this around

even with quite a number of us lifting this thing was bloody heavy.

 

[themalteser]

PS: just after that above picture was taken I (being one of the few registered gaijin living in my -ku) I was one of the team carrying and jiggling this around

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even with quite a number of us lifting this thing was bloody heavy.

That thing looks really heavy!! Are you in Japan there? How interesting.
I have never tried Mochi before, now I am going to try and find where to get it from.

 

[pellicle]

Are you in Japan there?

I was

 

[AZ Don]

I had a valve sparing aortic aneurysm (root & ascending) replacement done in May 2013. The root aneurysm was on one side so the surgeon notched the aortic graft so it was actually only a partial root replacement. Afterwards my "well functioning" BAV started leaking, progressing to moderate over the next year or so but since then it has been holding steady and my ejection fraction actually improved to 55 from 45.

 

[johninsd]

Hello all,
I see a lot of valve replacement anniversaries, but not a lot of aortic root replacement anniversaries.

Please, can you share your anniversary if you had your root replaced?

Thank you,

I'm coming up on five years since I had my aortic root replaced along with the aortic valve - got a bovine one installed. I've had some episodes of atrial flutter and recently had an ablation performed to clear it up - seems to have worked so far. I'm not quite back to where I was physically before all this started with the initial diagnosis in 2011 but then I'm 8 years older (72 now). Amazing what modern medicine can do - most likely would have died years ago if not for the docs - thanks docs!

 

[pellicle]

... Amazing what modern medicine can do - most likely would have died years ago if not for the docs - thanks docs!

agreed ... although in my case that would have meant I'd not have made 20 years, so I'm actually very thankful for them saving my life (not simply extending it a little). I did a lot between 10 and 55.

 

[ZachL]

Just had my aortic root and ascending aorta with a mechanical St. Jude valve installed Feb 2018. It was just going to be the ascending aorta and a mechanical valve but the surgeon said once he got in there the root tissue was in worse shape than he thought so he went ahead and replaced it while I was open