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#ThinkAortaThinkFamily Success Story | The Bertozzi's

kbbertozzi
May 4, 2023
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Updated: Jun 17, 2023

Has someone in your family suffered from #AorticAneurysm or #AorticDisease ? Has your family been tested? If so please help us share your story:

https://forms.office.com/r/nysYuNRzMN

At age 46, Karin suffered an emergent dissecting aortic aneurysm. Her surgeon felt strongly there had to be a family history.

All she knew was that her paternal grandfather died at an early age of a cardiac event.

When she found the autopsy, Pandora's box was opened or had she discovered a pot of gold?

Karin never met her Grandpa Don.

Read more about her family story.

https://www.thinkaorta.us/post/think-aorta-think-family-the-bertozzi-family-part-1

https://www.thinkaorta.us/post/part-two-think-aorta-think-family

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