Valve replacement timeline
29M diagnosed with bicuspid aortic valve when I was 12. At my checkup last year the echo showed just borderline mild aortic regurgitation and was told I probably wouldn’t need surgery anytime soon if ever. I had a follow up this year with a different cardiologist and the echo showed borderline moderate regurgitation. They did a TEE to confirm it and a CTA that showed an ascending aortic aneurysm of 4.5 cm (that was the first imaginative ever had on it so it could have been like that for some time). I’m curious if anyone has had similar findings and how long was it before you had surgery. It’s honestly been stressing me out. Not because of the surgery necessarily but because I love backpacking and lifting weights (I’ve always been pretty active) and I don’t want to push myself so hard that I end up needing surgery sooner but I also do want to waste years babying myself (if that makes sense). Thank you in advanced