UTHealth: Teen Has Preventive Surgery for Life-Threatening Thoracic Aortic Condition
October 31, 2019
October 31, 2019
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 31 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston issued the following news release:
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- UTHealth leading geneticist, surgeon team up to help her
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After a genetic defect took the life of her father at age 35 and her brothers at ages 23 and 18, Arizona teenager Zowie Claudio knew she was living with a time bomb in her chest. She inherited a weakness in the thoracic aorta, which carries blood from the he . . .
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- UTHealth leading geneticist, surgeon team up to help her
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After a genetic defect took the life of her father at age 35 and her brothers at ages 23 and 18, Arizona teenager Zowie Claudio knew she was living with a time bomb in her chest. She inherited a weakness in the thoracic aorta, which carries blood from the he . . .