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The Medicine Cabinet: Ask the Harvard Experts: Who needs screening for an aortic aneurysm
A: The aorta is the thick-walled vessel that carries ... A heart ultrasound (echocardiogram) or CT scan can be used to screen ...
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'I just had minutes left to live': Little known condition almost kills P.E.I. woman
After being pulled back from the brink of death when her aorta began to ... Finally a CT scan revealed an aortic dissection, a condition most common with enlarged aortas where the different ...