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Prosecutors say was decompositional fluid from little caylee and one strand of caylees hair which expert testimony the expert says was a hair from the child who was already dead before in the trunk. and the evidence hammered by the state, a circumstantial case across the board and appears that the defense strategy today was going to be to move off of what yesterday was, which was a dissection of the family dynamic within the anthony household and got a brother who doesnt know his sister is pregn...

>> one of the walls teared apart and split open and blood went down the wrong pathway. >> any way she could have known she had this conditions? >> she had classic symptoms. chest pain, radiation down her arm. thats classic signs of a heart attack. >> we heard several years ago about john ritter, the actor, dying from dissection. it was said he could have no idea it was happening. what happened there? >> you are involving the main artery that feeds blood to all organs. theres a weakness that pred...

They have a problem is unfortunately something like this where you get the dissection and the tear. they may not have had any problem with it in the past. if they have whats known as an aneurysm, thats when the aorta starts to get big because the walls are weak and the aneurysm starts to get boggy. you can see that sometimes on a chest x-ray or ct scan but typically this is something thats just undetected until something tragic like this happens. >> jill, weighs a close friend and can have danlt...

>> yeah. heres the good news. first of all, it is still pretty rare. so in the united states, for example, maybe around 2,000 cases of this sort of problem in a given year. thats rare in the scheme of things. two things i i would really say. hypertension, high blood pressure, we talk about it all the time. this is one of the worst consequences of high blood pressure. most people with high blood pressure will never have a problem like this but if you do it obviously needs to be controlled. there ...

The aorta. and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> its unclear for sure. there are a couple of main risk factors. one is hypertension, high blood pressure. and that high blood pressure over time can sort of erode the inner layer of the aorta. sometimes people may have a genetic predisposition because the tissue is not as strong as well in that area but usually that hypertension is sort of the main cull plit. >> is it something that can be caught ...

The aorta. and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> its unclear for sure. there are a couple of main risk factors. one is hypertension, high blood pressure. and that high blood pressure over time can sort of erode the inner layer of the aorta. sometimes people may have a genetic predisposition because the tissue is not as strong as well in that area but usually that hypertension is sort of the main cull plit. >> is it something that can be caught ...