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Medical staff work on an aortic abdominal aneurysm March 10 ,2008 at Southwest Washington Medical Center, where Dr. Riyad Karmy-Jones treats the condition with a non- inavasive stint procedure that places a reinforcing material into the weakened artery and relieves pressure from threatening to burst the artery and killing the victim.
(The Columbian/ N. Scott Trimble)
(The Columbian/ N. Scott Trimble)