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Case Notes - Aneurysms

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Dr Mark Porter explores health issues of the day. He investigates aneurysms, swellings in blood vessels anywhere in the body. The government has announced a national screening programme for aneurysms in the abdomen, whick kill more than 2,500 people in the UK every year. More than half of them could be saved with an operation.