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So just 28 more hours to go, had my Pre op today, this is getting very real very fast! I think I am as ready for this surgery as I will ever be, just wanting to get it started.

so after being in the waiting room for 10 years, my cardiologist has given the green light to take care of my bi-cuspid aortic valve (stenosis) and ascending aneurysm.. I have not posted in awhile, but I will try to be more faithful in the future! Now I need to pick a surgeon and hospital...

It has been awhile since I have participated in the forum. I came here 8 years ago looking for support having discovered that heart surgery was somewhere in my future. Everybody was a great help. My latest check up shows that i am getting closer to that surgery date. I have an asending aortic...

I had my yearly echo done early due to some increase in shortness of breath with excersise coupled with mild chest pain. So it looks like the numbers are starting to go south for me. The ascending aorta has increased in size from 4.6 to 4.8. Aortic valve mean gradient went from 17 mmHg to 23...

had my yearly echo today, looks like I was stressing for nothing. The aneurysm has stayed stable at 4.6. The only change was a slight increase in aortic valve gradient from a mean gradient of 13 mmHg to 17 mmHg and the peak was up to 30 mmHg (old reading was 22) Cardio was not happy with BP so...

so my yearly echo is on Jan 8, and now I am having trouble sleeping, This time in the waiting room can be hard at times. Overall I have a good handle on the whole future heart surgery thing, but it is times like now that I know the anxiety is always there just under the surface, waiting to rear...

Being aware that I have mild aortic stenosis (last reading 1.6cm2, mean gradient 13mmhg -Dec of 2008), I am more focused on what I feel like than I was in the past. I have noticed a change in how fast I get out of breath, but not the severity of sob. A good steady walk will trigger some sob in...

Well, I had my 6 month (make that 8 month) checkup. The Aortic aneurysm is still at 4.6cm. (ct scan) my echo shows my Aortic valve area down to 1.6 cm. (last echo it was 1.9) so I am having increased stenosis on this valve. I have a hunch this will trigger the surgery before the aneurysm does...

An update; had a surgeon consult a few days ago, He feels that I should be on a beta blocker, look at surgery for the aortic aneurysm at 5.0cm. He was concerned with the continued mild chest pain and was thinking that a heart cath. would be a good way to go. He was going to discuss this with...

Hello all. I have been reading the posts on this sight to get more information on bav and assending aneurysms. I have known that I had a bicuspid Aortic valve since about 1996. Had an echo done each year for a while, no changes. Due to no insurance and a job change I did not have any tests done...