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How To Ascertain The Cause Of This Demise?
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My father passed away from a ruptured artery four months ago. He was 69 years old and healthy as a horse. He was excercising with his friends one morning as any other (his routine was about a 10k walk, followed by swimming and weightlifting). He said he felt as though his back and face were being pricked repeatedly. They told him to sit down, and he collapsed within a matter of minutes. He was quite literally passing in front of the hospital, right in front of the emergency entrance. You can imagine that the ambulance arrived quite quickly, although the doctor I talked to said that he had probably passed in the ambulance. No doctors I have talked to have been able to give me a definite answer as for why his artery ruptured. He was not under stress, and heart problems haven't been...complicated. Apparently, it was somthing that he kept from my mother and I...something that many people live weith for years, and his heart specialist had said was currently not a problem...please, I wasn't even in the country when this happened. I want to fin out what happened.
My father passed away from a ruptured artery four months ago. He was 69 years old and healthy as a horse. He was excercising with his friends one morning as any other (his routine was about a 10k walk, followed by swimming and weightlifting). He said he felt as though his back and face were being pricked repeatedly. They told him to sit down, and he collapsed within a matter of minutes. He was quite literally passing in front of the hospital, right in front of the emergency entrance. You can imagine that the ambulance arrived quite quickly, although the doctor I talked to said that he had probably passed in the ambulance. No doctors I have talked to have been able to give me a definite answer as for why his artery ruptured. He was not under stress, and heart problems haven't been...complicated. Apparently, it was somthing that he kept from my mother and I...something that many people live weith for years, and his heart specialist had said was currently not a problem...please, I wasn't even in the country when this happened. I want to fin out what happened.
Wed, 9 May 2018
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I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Your father had a rapid progressive aortic dissection. This is like a terrible car crash where the chance to survive is very low, even if the patient is in the hospital. Aorta is the largest blood vessel arterial in the human body that takes blood from the heart to the peripheral organs.
Aortic dissection can occur in a normal looking aorta or in an enlarged (dilated) one. High blood pressure and extreme physical activity may trigger the dissection. The dissection enlarges itself and the patient experience a very sharp pain. There are different types of aortic dissections and the chance to survive depends on that and the size of dissection.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Anila Skenderi
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Your father had a rapid progressive aortic dissection. This is like a terrible car crash where the chance to survive is very low, even if the patient is in the hospital. Aorta is the largest blood vessel arterial in the human body that takes blood from the heart to the peripheral organs.
Aortic dissection can occur in a normal looking aorta or in an enlarged (dilated) one. High blood pressure and extreme physical activity may trigger the dissection. The dissection enlarges itself and the patient experience a very sharp pain. There are different types of aortic dissections and the chance to survive depends on that and the size of dissection.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Anila Skenderi
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