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#ThinkAortaThinkFamily Success Story | The Bertozzi's

  • kbbertozzi
  • May 4, 2023
  • 1 min read

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:

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.


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