{"id":35157,"date":"2022-08-18T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=35157"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:09:19","slug":"aortic-root-dilation-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/08\/18\/aortic-root-dilation-progression\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilated Aortic Root Progression: A Concern for Desmond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently jumped on a Zoom with Desmond, a 33-year-old patient from Ireland who was just diagnosed with a dilated aortic root. Given the life-threatening concerns of aortic aneurysms, Desmond had several important questions. One of those questions was, &#8220;Will my dilated aortic root progress to need surgery?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/Dr-Luis-Castro-Patient-Desmond.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Luis Castro &amp; Desmond\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/>Dr. Luis Castro &amp; Desmond<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To provide Desmond an expert opinion, I was very lucky to interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Luis-Castro-Redwood+City-California.php\">Dr. Luis Castro<\/a>\u00a0about this very sensitive topic. As you may know, Dr. Castro is a long-time supporter of this website who has successfully treated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Luis-Castro-Redwood+City-California.php\">over 200 heart valve patients<\/a> from our community. Here is Dr. Castro&#8217;s response to Desmond&#8217;s question:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VPkOJD8O5-g?si=8fSOeDFCwimJWzVK\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nMany thanks to Desmond for his question and many thanks to Dr. Luis Castro for sharing his clinical insights and research with our patient community.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aneurysms"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43027,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157\/revisions\/43027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}