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What is Aortic Aneurysm? (Model Demonstration)
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What is Aortic Aneurysm? (Model Demonstration)

The most clear and straightforward definition of AA is made on a model. It makes it understandable to know what an aneurysm is and the location of the most common aortic aneurysm below the kidney (renal) arteries.

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So, here's how the aorta or a, what is this called, yeah, cut, this is a model, so what What is an aortic aneurysm and why it develops? So this is a model for what the abdominal aorta looks like or abdominal aortic aneurysm would look like. Here would be the chest from here on up and going through from the chest down, this is where the arteries come out to the kidneys. So right and left, let's say, and then here's the dilation or the ballooning of the aorta below the kidneys, and that's called abdominal aortic aneurysm. This is, and then before, right around the belly button, it divides into right and left, and here you see on the left side, this is what we call the iliac artery, which goes inside the pelvis, you don't see that or feel it normally, has another aneurysm. So abdominal aortic aneurysm, which is the common location for abdominal, for any aortic aneurysm or the most common location for an aortic aneurysm in the body, it happens in the abdominal aorta. Famous people that is like Albert Einstein, Lucille Ball, they died of an aortic aneurysm.

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