Einstein also died from one of these.
Didn’t John Ritter die of this too? And he was a good deal younger than Einstein or Holbrooke.
My grandfather had an aortic aneurysm. They were able to repair it with a then-revolutionary new material called Dacron. Twelve years later, it failed, and there was not enough strong tissue left for another repair.
The patch held for twelve years, which may not be a great record, but it meant the world to me. Pop-Pop died when I was eleven.
Yeah if you have Super sharp piercing pain from front to back of mid sternum ( that lasts and does not go away) .... make sure you are right with your savior.