How Do You Recognize Symptoms Of Aortic Aneurysm?
Aortic aneurysms are known as the “silent killer,” since it is very difficult to recognize the oncoming symptoms. An aneurysm is a ballooning of an artery. If allowed to balloon too much, the stress of the blood-filled balloon bursts the artery wall, which causes massive internal bleeding. Here are a few signs that will help you recognize an aortic aneurysm before it strikes a deadly blow. There are not many symptoms to look for, unfortunately. Since the symptoms do not show themselves easily–or if they do, they are minimal–you should be checked by a physician yearly once you hit about 60 years of age. Since the symptoms rarely show themselves, you should protect yourself against a ruptured aortic aneurysm by getting checked once a year if you are a smoker, overweight, diabetic, male and over 60 years of age. One of the symptoms that may be present is gastric outlet obstruction. Gastric outlet obstruction prevents output from the stomach to the small intestine. Since this symptom als
