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Disorder which is connective tissue disorder that causes spontaneous rupture of arteries and organs. so his journey started off with an aortic dissection back in 2005, which sort of the only analogy the surgeon made to me at the time was the actor john ritter. >> kelly: the tear in the heart. >> the tear in the lining of the aorta. and my husband has an underlying disease that caused his dissection. so our journey continued beyond that. he we want to work one morning and didn't come home for six weeks. then it was an more thanking surgery. we went to the cleveland clinic. >> kelly: those are a...

What we now know -- somebody that has chest pain like that -- you think about the heart being potentially a problem here. this is different. this is not a problem with the heart specifically. there's a major blood vessel that carries the blood away from the heart called the aorta. as you might imagine blood is flowing very fast. high pressure through that aorta. and sometimes you can get a tear in one of the inner layers of the aorta and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> it's unclear for sure. there's a couple of main risk factors for it. one...

The aorta. and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> it's 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 with an ultrasound or something like that? >> it's a great question. typically if someone has a tru...

The aorta. and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> it's 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 with an ultrasound or something like that? >> it's a great question. typically if someone has a tru...