Sabina Loving owns Loving Tax Services, Inc., a new tax preparation service in an impoverished neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where there is high unemployment and many homes and businesses are boarded up.
Unpredictable ruptures of arteries and organs are the most serious complications of the Vascular Type of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. A torn artery can cause internal bleeding, stroke, or shock, and is the most common cause of death in patients with this disorder. Rupture of the intestine is seen in 25 to 30 percent of affected individuals and tearing of the uterus (womb) during pregnancy affects 2 to 3 percent of women.
After pump failure, it is the second most common cause of in-hospital mortality among patients with AMI. Approximately 50% of patients with cardiac rupture after AMI die within 5 days, and 82% die within 2 weeks of the index infarction. Aggressive early diagnosis and surgery may confer a survival rate as high as 75%. The overall mortality from myocardial rupture after blunt trauma is 76-93%.