Interesting birth defect

[michellep]

BobH, I think you'll find this interesting. I just received my operative report. During the surgery, not only did they confirm the quad aortic valve, but my doctor encountered something else unique. I am just going to use his language to describe it...
"The inframural left main coronary artery with lateral origin extended transversely posteriouly across the left sinus." In other words, the left artery was imbedded into my aorta valve, beginning in the back, wrapped around and then traveled down the front of the heart (as in a normal heart). I had read that people with bicuspid aorta frequently have more problems/deformaties than just the valve leaking. I thought some of you would find this interesting.

 

[tobagotwo]

...and it goes 'round and 'round, woah-woah, and it goes out there...

As long as everything connects eventually, it's all good. Did they have to move that bad boy to replace the valve, or did they find away to stitch around it? I believe you had originally mentioned that this peculiarity had required a tissue valve because of the unusual location of the arteries.

I guess there would have been a much longer and more complex surgery to change its path and refit the aortic root to accommodate a carbon valve. A very unusual circumstance.

Well, as a Shamrock, you may be a has-been, but you're still unique!

Best wishes,

 

[michellep]

Originally my doctor was planning on replacing the root (due to the dialation) with a non-stint tissue valve. He decided not to touch anything and put the stinted valve in. The artery is embedded in the tissue of the valve so it is quite complicated.
My next question to him is...could this artery eventually get squeezed and have reduced flow through tissue growth? Am I more susceptible to an anuerism since the root was dialated but not replaced/repaired?
So many questions, so little time with the doc...