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To: Smartaleck
Since you won't answer the medical question it must be concluded you can't. Thanks.

I don't know how you conclude that a statement about the physiological stress of starvation/dehydration on aortic dissection is not about medicine and is about privacy. I'm sure you have some logic for it but it escapes me.

Aneurysm in her aorta, die of a stroke....is there a similarity?

Is this the 'medical' question you're looking for an answer to? I don't suppose you could reword that into an intelligent question? Never mind. Aortic dissection would lead to a ruptured aorta and death from blood loss. Stroke is most commonly caused by a blood clot going to the brain. I guess you're right; I can't answer that I find any similarity. Both involve blood? That sure narrows the pathology down.

72 posted on 05/19/2005 9:10:16 AM PDT by TigersEye ("It's a Republic if you can keep it." - B. Franklin)
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To: TigersEye

"Aortic dissection would lead to a ruptured aorta and death from blood loss"

A hemorrhagic stroke develops when an artery in the brain leaks or bursts and causes bleeding inside the brain tissue or near the surface of the brain.

An aortic aneurysm is a stretched and bulging section in the wall of the aorta. A bulging aorta is weakened and can burst, or rupture, resulting in life-threatening bleeding.
Similar?
Was she on blood thinners, was she on blood thickeners, was she on blood pressure medicines to treat the aneurysm which contributed to the stroke?


90 posted on 05/20/2005 3:22:34 AM PDT by Smartaleck
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