My cardiologist just called me in regards to my CT scan last week. The scan showed that I have an anomalous origin of the right coronary artery. Basically one coronary artery is supposed to come off each side of the heart and supply that side of the heart muscle with blood. The artery that supplies the right side of my heart actually originates on the left side of my heart (so both of my arteries originate on one side (the left side)).
This may need to be fixed at the time I have surgery. It can cause a lot of problems if left alone; but fixing it can also cause a lot problems (there is a high incidence of early graft failure). The likely solution would be a bypass of this artery. One of the problems with doing this is the durability of a bypass. Since I am so young my cardiologist is concerned with the ability of a correction to last for 60+ years. I will be speaking with my surgeon about this in the next few days; but he likely wont know whether he is going to fix it until he actually gets in there and sees what it looks like.
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Well, that's an interesting development. I did some reading about this condition. It does seem like it's something that needs fixing. Hopefully they can do that at the same time as the rest. It will be interesting to find out what they plan to do. Keep us posted.
Hugs and happy holidays,
Jim
blogs are a pain to stay up to date with arnt they :P
Hope youre doing great - maybe youre having surgery now or soon - im sure youll pull through it fine youve got a great strong attitude!
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