Man discovers predisposition after surviving aneurysm rupture [Video]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Six years ago, Timothy Meyer came home from work, and while changing his clothes, felt a “wild vibration.” He then passed out and his wife called 911. 

“By the time I reached the hospital, I was in the single digits of a chance to survive,” said Meyer. 

Meyer was taken to Corewell Health emergency room in downtown Grand Rapids. He had a large iliac aneurysm rupture. He was 57 years old at the time, which his doctor at called young to have such an event. 

“We looked at it, and went, ‘Gosh, what a sizable aneurysm for a young person,'” said Dr. Eanas Yassa, a vascular surgeon at Corewell Heath. “That’s got to be associated with some sort of genetic predisposition to aneurysm development.”

Yassa repaired Meyer’s emergent rupture at Corewell Health.

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