Sentences with phrase «aneurysms eventually»

Without treatment, abdominal aortic aneurysms eventually rupture and lead to death 50 percent of the time.

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The next stage is offering men over 65 a simple ultrasound test to detect early abdominal aortic aneurysm, or Triple A - the weakening of the main artery from heart to abdomen which kills over 3000 men a year — eventually saving more than 1600 lives each year.

It is difficult to diagnose and, without treatment, 25 percent of children with KD develop coronary artery aneurysms — balloon - like bulges of heart vessels — that may eventually result in heart attacks, congestive heart failure or sudden death.