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Clare's Profile
Diagnosis: Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Aortic Aneurysm
Member Since: January 31, 2014
Member Since: January 31, 2014
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I had been diagnosed with high blood pressure some time ago. After a change in medicine in Oct 2013 I started feeling worse instead of better. I switched to a new primary care doctor in November. She wouldn't change the meds but ordered an Echo. I was diagnosed with the bicuspid valve and sent to a cardiologist. The cardiologist gave me hope that it would be 10 years before the valve would need replacement. After a TEE, the story was still the same. A routine CT scan however showed a 5 cm aneurysm. Surgery was less than two weeks later, 1/9/14.
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I am from: St. Louis, Missouri, United States -
My surgery date was: January 9, 2014 -
I was diagnosed with: Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Aortic Aneurysm -
My surgery was: Aortic Valve Replacement, Aortic Aneurysm Replacement -
My hospital is: St. Luke's St. Louis
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