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CT results
May. 2nd, 2024 16:15 The good news is that the watchman device is 'present with thrombus within the left atrial appendage'. Positioned correctly and the heart tissue is growing over it effectively sealing off the LAA as it should blocking the place where blood might coagulate and create a clot. No surprise there. The success rate in planting these things is in the upper 90 percentile so I assumed it would be fine.
Now, as MR. Harvey used to say, for the rest of the story.
Here is where Dr. Internet is maybe not so helpful. I've got an annotated version of this and have done the research but there I've got a couple of issues, one heart, one lung, that might or might not be a problem. The heart one is the weirdest. From what I can read it is a birth anomaly that happens in .01pct of the male population. There is a weirdly routed artery that I've had all my life. I suspect that it will be one of those 'there is not a problem with this as it has not been bothering you and we know about it now' things.
And I've maybe lost some lung capacity with reduced alviolis in one lung. But that might be a result of the way I was lying during the CT. Regardless as far as I can tell it is not a huge problem and nothing they do anything about.
And I've got some arterial calcification. Not much surprise there. I'm doing most of what I can do about that already so it should not be getting worse and might be getting better.
So this whole thing will need to have some consulting with it, I think. Could be a bunch of nothing for a 70 year old. I've got it all written up and annotated and linked to Internet articles so there will be more research.
I wrote my cardio doc to nudge him for a decision regarding my surgery. The results of the CT dropped today so I don't expect to hear back before tomorrow.
I did my dog walking today and ended up with 8300 steps so I feel like I've done what I need to do.
Now, as MR. Harvey used to say, for the rest of the story.
Here is where Dr. Internet is maybe not so helpful. I've got an annotated version of this and have done the research but there I've got a couple of issues, one heart, one lung, that might or might not be a problem. The heart one is the weirdest. From what I can read it is a birth anomaly that happens in .01pct of the male population. There is a weirdly routed artery that I've had all my life. I suspect that it will be one of those 'there is not a problem with this as it has not been bothering you and we know about it now' things.
And I've maybe lost some lung capacity with reduced alviolis in one lung. But that might be a result of the way I was lying during the CT. Regardless as far as I can tell it is not a huge problem and nothing they do anything about.
And I've got some arterial calcification. Not much surprise there. I'm doing most of what I can do about that already so it should not be getting worse and might be getting better.
So this whole thing will need to have some consulting with it, I think. Could be a bunch of nothing for a 70 year old. I've got it all written up and annotated and linked to Internet articles so there will be more research.
I wrote my cardio doc to nudge him for a decision regarding my surgery. The results of the CT dropped today so I don't expect to hear back before tomorrow.
I did my dog walking today and ended up with 8300 steps so I feel like I've done what I need to do.