What is an aortic aneurysm?

Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium -- an accumulation of blood in the sac around his heart -- his wife, Dr. Céline Gounder announced on Wednesday. The aneurysm was slowly growing and had gone undetected, she wrote in a statement on Substack.

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