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| An MRI in our patient depicts the 7.0 cm root and the large left atrium. This womans cardiologist at the university medical center where she worked suggested that she not undergo an operative procedure because he erroneously felt that the operative mortality was in excess of 25%. She then referred herself to our cardiac surgical unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1989 for Marfan surgery. | ||