Aortic Dissection | Rodney's Story
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2018
- Rodney M. was airlifted to Johns Hopkins after experiencing sudden chest discomfort, leg numbness and excruciating pain. The culprit of his symptoms was a life-threatening tear in his aorta, the vessel that supplies blood from the heart to the rest of the body. Rodney promptly underwent a highly complex emergency surgery during which Dr. Jennifer Lawton repaired his aorta and set him on the road to recovery. To learn more about cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins, visit
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Survivor here. thank you for sharing Rodney's story.
Thank you for this video. My mother is currently in surgery for the same thing and hopefully we’ll be doing just this too! I work for a rehab clinic and I’m already planning this all out in my head
I feel for you as I had a type a dissection this year in June .I was told I probably wouldn’t make it prior to the surgery… I was so glad I woke up two days later ! 9 inch scar down my chest .Keep strong …. From the uk
Rodney,
I also suffered an Aortic Dissection on November 2018 and your story sounds exactly like mine. A true miracle indeed !
For only two months I have been a survivor of this. you give me hope....
God Bless You. God Is Good! I had an ascending aortic dissection on Halloween of 2012. Unbeknownst to me I contracted 2 bacteria (1 I got from the hospital) which attached itself to the repair my surgeon had done. 2 years later I had to have another even more complex emergency surgery as the bacteria had eaten away at all of the repair and even extended the damage on down farther.This time he replaced the mechanical repair with a biological (cadavar) repair. My surgeon said the bacteria didn't normally attach itslelf as readily to this type of material versus mechanical. I now have an anyursym that they are watching. I pray I don't have to have this surgery a third time.
God bless you.
How are you?
I also survived 1 I feel everything you said good luck to you
In May 2017, while on holiday in California, I visited Stanford University Campus, the Mall, and downtown Palo Alto. Shortly after returning to my hotel after lunch, I experienced severe pain that is indescribable. I was quickly transported by ambulance to Stanford University Medical Center where I spent long hours in the emergency room waiting for a diagnosis. Your story sounds exactly like mine. Eventually, I underwent an Aortic Dissection Operation, which was a true miracle.
Permisi, saya mau bertanya apakah pasien diseksi aorta, memiliki perbedaan tekanan darah antara lengan kanan dan kiri?
@@muhammadiqbal-ou8ts Hi Iqbal , Pada umumnya, perbedaan tekanan darah antara lengan kanan dan kiri pada pasien dengan diseksi aorta tidak signifikan. Namun, dalam beberapa kasus, terutama pada diseksi aorta yang melibatkan arteri subklavia atau cabang arteri lainnya, dapat terjadi perbedaan tekanan darah antara kedua lengan. Hal ini bisa disebabkan oleh aliran darah yang terganggu atau penyempitan arteri yang memasok darah ke salah satu lengan.
Perbedaan tekanan darah antara lengan kanan dan kiri biasanya diperiksa sebagai bagian dari evaluasi dan diagnosis pasien dengan diseksi aorta. Jika terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan, hal ini dapat menjadi pertanda adanya masalah yang lebih serius dalam aliran darah arteri, dan bisa menjadi petunjuk bagi tim medis untuk menentukan strategi pengobatan yang tepat.
Namun demikian, perbedaan tekanan darah antara lengan kanan dan kiri tidak selalu menunjukkan adanya diseksi aorta. Oleh karena itu, penilaian lebih lanjut oleh tenaga medis yang berkualifikasi diperlukan untuk memastikan diagnosis yang akurat dan penanganan yang tepat bagi pasien.
Semoga membantu Iqbal. Take care.
Rodney is pretty damn lucky. The medical people that do this stuff are heros . If you have this at all and live its amazing.. I can't imagine guess it is worth it get checked out . I know a guy who had something like this and the vessel burst in the doctors hands (not sure how) during the surgery. He lived but he would have died the day of his surgery.
Glad you made it. My typeA dissection tore, and lifeflighted, i know how you never were integregrated back into society. Rats and fleas and homelesness. no jobs. 15/month food stamps. It's been 19 years, so I feel your pain. Sometimes we wish we had been left to die, but life is occasionally pleasing. Keep fighting! - Jason Kassa 9/27/2002 dissection lifeflight daytona-shands 2 big surgeries at Hopkins. Each day is a choice to keep fighting the war. Good luck!
Been there done that...I actually had an aneurysm of the Aorta and acute dicection with a tear .... Chopper ride , 10 hour surgery in Nashville, the whole 9..
Oh yeah almost forgot a brand new artificial heart valve....😀 thats been 5 years ago ....
I feel ya brother. I went through it. They told me I should've been dead way before I got to the hospital. It's scary stuff. ❤️
Sounds like my encounter too. I had the dissection in my abdomen so not as bad as the chest area. But I went to my local hospital 3 times in 9 days. Each time they sent me home saying I had a virus. The last time I refused to leave as I was too ill. A new Dr got me CT scan and they found it and rushed me to another hospital! They did not know how i had survived for 9 days without medical attention. But I knew that day I was dying. The doctors and nurses, all of the medical team are heroes. 2 weeks in hospital and I'm now out. Slowly recovering. Grateful 🙏
It brings Tears in my Eyes😭
I had a type B dissection on July 20th. Tear was just under my heart down to my kidneys. THANKFULLY i did not have to have surgery because it did not interfere with the blood flow to my legs. Scariest most painful thing i have ever felt
Glad to see you are doing so well.
Are you feeling well right now?
God bless you Rodney and your family
Sadly,my 42 year old partner had an aortic dissection leading to a haemopericardinum, he died in front of me 18 years ago today
I'm so sorry lady.
My current situation is very strange. In the last week of July I had sudden lower back pains radiating up between my shoulder blades. Went to the ER. Was admitted and got CT scans, etc. after a 4 day stay I was discharged. No surgery. They told me that I had a ascending aorta aneurysm 3.9 CM. I got home and was reading the discharge papers and they talk about a abdominal dissection. What?!?! They only told me on discharge to find a cardiologist. This is a big hospital in Houston. Why didn’t the perform surgery on the lower abdm8nal aorta dissection. I assume it’s a small interior dissection. But I also learned that my upper portion of the descending aorta had dissected and looks as though it healed according to later learned info. Currently sitting home over a month and a half since first going into ER. My question is why didn’t they want to operate? They never even explained that.
My dad is in surgery for this right now, it's been about 8 hours so far.
Hope your Dad is okay. My friend just had this surgery yesterday. I'm hoping he makes a swift recovery.
All good?
just went thru thiis i didnt need surgery and taking meds for blood presser , but im still terriafid . i have a class b
My comment to your reply did not save, so I am rewriting it. I also had type B aortic dissection. I did not have surgery. 9 days on 24 hour watch in ICU - that was 4 years ago. All you need to do is follow your doctor's direction. I have a wonderful doctor. Control your BP and watch your nutrition.
I had a type b dissection on July 25. My recovery seems slow, but i think life will be ok.
Amen 😢Amen
I’m a 19 year old who just had an aortic dissection. I’m a water polo player and a workout fanatic. I need guidance as the two things I loved in this world has been stripped away from me. I now have to change my major from Administration of Justice to something else as I now cannot become a cop who wanted to become Swat when I was older. What do I do
What caused it to happen? If your young and a athlete what do you think caused it?
@@Hollowpointjayy I would assume the working out or maybe he has an underlying health condition he should probs get checked for
It could be Marfan syndrome
I could related 28 year old love doing muay Thai and heavy lifting, found out I have descending aorta dissection I can no longer do physical type work out which is doing push ups pull ups including the things I love doing
I know this video is sad but, his wife had so much makeup on like Jesus, she looked like a British grime artist.