New guidelines aim to prevent unnecessary death from thoracic aortic disease

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 08:07 in Health & Medicine

When actor John Ritter died suddenly in 2003 from a tear in his thoracic aorta -- the large artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body -- that tragedy brought attention to a...

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