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    ? about doctors

    I have read so many good things about Dr. Dietz and Dr. Cameron at Baltimore/Hopkins...does anyone know if they pediatric surgerys are their expertise also? My two year old has a BAV with a bulging at his aortic root at the sinus of valsalva. He probably will not need surgery for a couple of...
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    question

    so should I be overly worried that my four year old who has a tricuspid valve was found to have his aortic root in the "high end of normal?"
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    my boys...

    :( Just found out on Oct 20th my two year old son whom we've known has had BAV since two weeks old has "mild dilating at his aortic root at his sinus of valsalva." Due to that finding, I had my other two children, a four year old son and eleven month old daughter tested through echo...
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    Help!!!!!!!!

    This is Kyles mom...my two year old has BAV w/ mild dilation at his aortic root. My four year old has been checked by a cardiologist with an echo and told everything was fine. He has had a cough for three weeks now. We got a chest xray yesterday. It revealed an "opacity at his aortic arch"...
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    mild aortic root dilation

    Hello it's Julie, Kyle's mom again... My two year old Kyle has BAV and last year his aortic root was on the high end of normal at 1.7cm. Three weeks ago his echo revealed his aortic root was now "mildly dilated" at 2.07cm. His "bulging" grew 0.37cm in one year. If it continues to grow at...
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    doctors?

    Hello you precious people out there on this forum...I can't thank all of you enough. I have less fears and tears b/c of all of you. Have any of you heard of Dr. Hillel Laks at UCLA or Dr. Emile Basha at Children's Boston Hospital? I'm sending my two year old son's records to both doctors for...
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    Two year old son w/ BAV

    Hello to all, My beautiful and innocent baby two year old son was diagnosed with BAV when he was two weeks old. We found out last week at his annual checkup that he has bulging at his aortic root at his sinus valsalva. I am so frightened, scared, sad, anxious, horrified, etc... Is there...
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