I had a follow-up appointment today. It was loooong, but rather uneventful and somewhat positive.
Dr A. was running 2 hours behind schedule. John came with me to my appointment and we waited a very long time, but Dr A was cheerful as usual. He asked how I'd been feeling and how things are going. I told him I feel great!
We discussed the fact that some of the other doctors are un-concerned about the mass on my heart. He did show my films to a few other doctors and they didn't know what the mass was, but initially didn't see it as well. Dr A said that he is still concerned and that he would rather be wrong than be unconcerned and miss anything. He had me repeat an echo cardiogram in office today. The mass was still there in the same place. The sonographer thought it was probably just a shadow, but what's the likelihood of there being a shadow in the same place on 2 echos and 1 TEE? Dr A wants me to come in for another echo cardiogram next week some time and Dr A will be present during the echo to guide the sonographer and try to get exactly what he wants. He wants a measurement of the mass and wants to compare that to the last measurements. Then if he is still concerned (which he believes he will be) he will schedule the iodine test, 3-D imaging of my heart, in one month.
Dr A did mention a few times that the mass could be nothing more than a bulging wall, or it could be something more serious (like a myxoma?). So more waiting it is. The only bad news is that my theory that this could be a thrombus, blood clot, is gone because if it was nothing more than a blood clot the mass would be gone now. Coumadin would have destroyed it. So we're back to a mystery mass in my heart, or a bulging wall.
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