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Some Injuries are for KeepsYesterday I met a 42-year-old optometrist who six days after the second mRNA COVID-19 vaccination suffered a distal aortic dissection. He was healthy and was physically fit. He knew something was wrong when back pain and leg weakness developed resulting in severe effort intolerance on vacation. He rushed home, was hospitalized and underwent the appropriate diagnostics to determine the presence of an aortic aneurysm or widening of the aorta and then a discrete tear which blood flow now goes through the true lumen and a false lumen created by the dissection. This occurs in the outer...

The mother of a 34-year-old man who died suddenly two weeks after his first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine said she believes her son would be alive today if he had had the information he needed to make an informed decision about the vaccine. Victor Castillo Simoes died May 5, 2021, from an acute aortic dissection — an uncommon medical emergency in which the inner layer of the large blood vessel branching off the heart’s aorta tears. The condition mostly affects men in their 60s and 70s. In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Simoes’ mother, Henrietta Simoes, said her...

Diagnosis 1. Symptoms The lights at the Metropolitan Opera House were already beginning to dim as the elderly couple made their way past the pumps and wingtips of the mostly seated audience. As the familiar notes of “La Traviata” began to sound from the orchestra, the man leaned over to his wife of 60-some years. “I feel terrible,” he whispered. He struggled to his feet, and the two edged back down the row. The man leaned heavily on his wife. His right leg was too weak to support him. In the lobby, he gratefully lowered himself into a wheelchair. He...

LOS ANGELES - The family of late actor John Ritter has reached a tentative settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, where the actor died, an attorney for the hospital said Wednesday. "There is an agreement in principle," attorney Rory Hernandez told The Associated Press. "But we still have to follow the legal procedure." Hearings will be held to finalize the agreement, he said, with the next court session set for Friday. Hernandez declined to disclose details of the settlement. The hospital will issue a statement in several weeks, he said. Court documents...