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Please tell me if an enlarged heart and an unfolding aorta is very danergrous?
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Signs: By themselves, they're not dangerous but they're signs that the individual has arteriosclerosis and underlying heart disease that needs to be further defined and investigated.
Answered 7/24/2014
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