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Midlands Cares: Understanding an Abdominal Aneurism

Tyler Ryan learns about the medical A-A-A and how it can be treated - if detected

COLUMBIA SC (WOLO) – There is a growing affliction for many people generally aged 50-84 called Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm – or a A-A-A.  The question is what in the world is this medical problem that has nothing to do with the auto club?  MUSC Doctor Shane Parmer, “an aneurysm, in essence, is a bulge in an artery…arteries as a rule…