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I appreciate the many people on this forum who were willing to answer my questions. It definitely calmed my fears but it is what it is, it's painful, one of the most painful things I have even been through. They had to do reconstuction on my aorta using using a hemashield graft fortunately once...

Hello, I have surgery on Friday to replace my descending aorta and to fix a leaky valve. I am having it done at the Heart Tower at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC by Dr. Groh. I am 47 and in decent health. The problem was discovered when I had a mild heart attack on Dec 23rd. They could not...