Mum Paula Ivers went to A&E complaining of chest pain but was sent home with a prescription for indigestion medication ...
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John Ritter's family touts early detection to protect against aortic disease that claimed his life
John Ritter's family touts early detection to protect against aortic disease that claimed his life.
For generations, something troubling seemed to plague the men in John Ritter’s bloodline. “We always heard, ‘Oh those Ritters die of their first and last heart attack,’ ” Amy Yasbeck, the beloved ...
A 28-year-old Michigan father survived a life-threatening aortic dissection after a second ER visit uncovered the emergency.
Through genetic analysis of a family with a history of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), investigators have identified mutations in the LOX gene, a gene associated with the integrity of ...
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John Ritter Died in 2003 After Collapsing on Set. What to Know About His Fatal Misdiagnosis
John Ritter died in 2003 from an aortic dissection, a tear in the body’s main artery ...
Amy Yasbeck reveals John Ritter was misdiagnosed with a heart attack the night he died, when a CT scan could have detected his aortic dissection.
A new finding by clinicians and geneticists may solve a medical mystery that one family has faced for the last 15 years and help identify the cause of a rare aortic disease in other patients as well.
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