supermauri
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Hi everyone ! my name is Maurizio, 52's , living in Padova ( city pretty close to Venice ) .
I've been around this forum since 2018... collecting so many fruitful informations. A special thanks to Pellicle who gave me the opportunity to cross check what I was doing with my INR self managements ; very well ! I come to the conclusion that we are in the same page, good to state that !
Let me give a quick back ground about my story : had diagnosed with BAV at 15's when I was playing rugby. Valve was continent ( no leaking ) so they didn't stop me playing but need monitoring every year its evolution. So I did regulary.
But the bad thing was the "born" of an aortic aneurism at the root. It kept growing very slowly until the day it reached 4,8 cm. nm . It happened on March 2016 and cardiologist sentence was " it's time to pass the ball to the heart surgeon".
Since it was an elective surgery I had time to consult 5 different "famous" surgeons spread in North Italy. In that precise moment began my nigthmare...
Let me say in advance that my bicuspid valve was still working perfectly and no sign of degeneration yet; that's the real question point ! is the valve going to stand in good status for the rest of my active life or will sooner or later degenerate ? Reason why the following consulted surgeons offered different approaches.
One surgeon offered to go with Ross procedure ( by fixing the aorta aneurism with an artificial prothesis ) and don't touch my valve.
Another surgeon offered a variant of Ross procedure by replacing my aorta segment with a natural animal tissue and don't touch my valve .
Third surgen offered to be part of a new procedure called Ozaki technique which were adopted in Japane since 10 years and just started in US few years before. This procedure simply amazed me ! it consist on rebilding the valve using our own pericardio tissue.
The other two surgeons suggested both the long term worldwide adopted Bentall procedure replacing at once aorta and valve.
After two months , close to a nervous breakdown... I finally went for Bentall and chosed for mechanical valve.
Right now ( after 6 years ) I might say that my little regret was not being brave enough to go for Ozaki... it seems performing very well base on actual data.
Is there anyone here got Ozaki ? just curious to know
Thanks again to all members willing to keep sharing their experiences ! it's really and added value to all of us !
I've been around this forum since 2018... collecting so many fruitful informations. A special thanks to Pellicle who gave me the opportunity to cross check what I was doing with my INR self managements ; very well ! I come to the conclusion that we are in the same page, good to state that !
Let me give a quick back ground about my story : had diagnosed with BAV at 15's when I was playing rugby. Valve was continent ( no leaking ) so they didn't stop me playing but need monitoring every year its evolution. So I did regulary.
But the bad thing was the "born" of an aortic aneurism at the root. It kept growing very slowly until the day it reached 4,8 cm. nm . It happened on March 2016 and cardiologist sentence was " it's time to pass the ball to the heart surgeon".
Since it was an elective surgery I had time to consult 5 different "famous" surgeons spread in North Italy. In that precise moment began my nigthmare...
Let me say in advance that my bicuspid valve was still working perfectly and no sign of degeneration yet; that's the real question point ! is the valve going to stand in good status for the rest of my active life or will sooner or later degenerate ? Reason why the following consulted surgeons offered different approaches.
One surgeon offered to go with Ross procedure ( by fixing the aorta aneurism with an artificial prothesis ) and don't touch my valve.
Another surgeon offered a variant of Ross procedure by replacing my aorta segment with a natural animal tissue and don't touch my valve .
Third surgen offered to be part of a new procedure called Ozaki technique which were adopted in Japane since 10 years and just started in US few years before. This procedure simply amazed me ! it consist on rebilding the valve using our own pericardio tissue.
The other two surgeons suggested both the long term worldwide adopted Bentall procedure replacing at once aorta and valve.
After two months , close to a nervous breakdown... I finally went for Bentall and chosed for mechanical valve.
Right now ( after 6 years ) I might say that my little regret was not being brave enough to go for Ozaki... it seems performing very well base on actual data.
Is there anyone here got Ozaki ? just curious to know
Thanks again to all members willing to keep sharing their experiences ! it's really and added value to all of us !