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Ascending Aortic Aneurysm
Age above 65, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking are four common causes for aortic aneurysm, but there are other causes also. Your LDL cholesterol is higher at 150. Healthy would be below 100. Your cardiologist can discuss this with you.
My friend's doctor told him that they will usually attempt surgery at 5.5 cm or higher. Sounds like your doctor/cardiologist is giving you good advice since you are at 6.2 cm already.
Art
Ascending Aortic Aneurysm
Hello Art,
I am an otherwise healthy white male, age 64,6 foot tall 178lbs. Workout twice a week. Always low blood pressure, under 110/76. LDL cholesterol 150. I was born with a strong heart murmur / mitral valve prolapse. It always shocked doctors who first heard it but it never slowed me down. No family history of heart disease. I recently had a CT scan for calcium scoring of arteries. Two of the four scanned scored zero. One scored 11.7 and one scored 49.4 for a total of 61.1. Not a bad score for my age but the problem is that the head of my ascending aorta was measured at 6.2cm. Clearly higher than a safe number under 4cm. Cardiologists want to move forward right away with surgery and I am inclined to agree. But my questions for you are: Have you ever heard of a heart murmur as the cause of an artery aneurism? Is it possible my artery is more elastic and 6.2 cm is not the danger it seems? I know you cannot give medical advice but your general opinion on my situation is highly appreciated. Thank you!
