My father was known to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Unfortunately it became tender and painful. When a CT scan was done, it had rapidly expanded and was at imminent risk of rupture. We decided on an open repair. This is the story...
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Hi, Dugu. Hi, Osman. Your father had an emergency operation for an aortic aneurysm. Tell us about your experience. How did you find the aneurysm? How did we find out? So we knew the aneurysm. We knew that it was at a small diameter, around four and a half centimeters. And it hasn't grown for the last two years. He was visiting me here in London and one morning he woke up up with incredible stomach pain, almost vomiting, but not being able to vomit, not being able to breathe, and we had to rush to the emergency room, and they couldn't find any reason for the stomach pain that he was experiencing, which was very, very heavy. So a bunch of scans, MRIs, and finally they found out that the aneurysm actually has grown to five and a half centimeters over a period of, let's say, four months because his last scan was four months prior to that time. So obviously significant growth in a short period of time and we got referred to St. Mary's and that's how we found out the status of the AAA and how it was almost about to rupture. Yeah, thank you.
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