I recently discovered that I have an aortic aneurysm. If that doesn’t sound good, that’s because it isn’t. At age 54, John Ritter died of a misdiagnosed aortic dissection.
The unfortunate thing is they don’t know for sure what causes them. It could be genetic, due to trauma (e.g., past car accident), or even an infection (e.g., salmonella food poisoning…