How successful is aortic surgery in Marfan syndrome?
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- Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD, is the President George H.W. Bush Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, Vice Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, and Director of the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
In addition, Dr. Milewicz is the Director of the John Ritter Research Program in Aortic and Vascular Diseases. She is a former chair and current member of our Professional Advisory Board and chairs the Thoracic Aortic Disease Coalition.
For more information about cardiac surgery in Marfan syndrome, visit:
marfan.org/resource/fact-sheet...
I had an aortic valve and graft implanted by Dr Coselli in January 1998 when I was 46 years old. Now I am age 72 and it is STILL working well. To anyone who is fearing the surgery I say "Go for it." it has improved my life in so many ways! No brainier.
I had an aorta root replacement, 1 valve repaired 1 replaced.. was hoping to go back to work, but couldn't... Had other things wrong.... I was 51 when I had it done.. I was the talk for the hospital in 2017.. still alive, just....lol
I am a young kid and got so scared about this I don't even need one for a link by time but I was getting scared that I'd like die on the spot just going into surgery
Pretty darn successful for me! Mine dissected, and after a long surgery, I’m fine, 23 years later! I am a 62 year old marfan patient.
@@andreagurrl Much love to you! it will be fine. Love him. Take good care of him. I think he'll be fine, but meanwhile, I'll pray for you if you don't mind!
Yup, me too. A+ for you.
I am shocked that nothing has been mentioned about the safer option to putting a graft to replace a section of the aorta. The PEARS - personal external aortic root support. While the person does have to have their "chest cracked", they don't have to go on heart-lung bypass and be on anticoagulants for the rest of their life. The PEARS is made by data from a cat scan and fed into a 3d printer. This gives an exact copy of the aorta which is put over the existing aorta to support it.
It didn't for me....😢
What happened?