Can a person be born without an aorta and what are the effects if yes?
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An Aorta is a large Artery coming straight off your heart. It is where most your vessels begin to take to the rest of your body. He might have been born with a reduced size (a typical aorta is very large size of 2 fingers) so it takes longer for the body to pump the blood to areas of the body. It is most likely a genetic thing or a fluke that happened during development. I do not know about being born completely with out an aorta.
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Well that really depends on WHY you're not supposed to. For instance; If you're allergic you could have a reaction such as your nose running. Or if you're to refrain from eating chocolate because you might gain weight then...you could possibly gain weight.
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Yes. For example when performing CPR there's the Dr ABC steps. The breathing is checked before the circulation is. Once the breathing step has been fixed you move on to the circulation. If it wasn't possible to breathe without circulation you'd have to do it the other way around, i.e. fix the circulation before you can move onto the breathing.
764409
and cancer, AIDS, arthritis, etc. There was a baby just born with his heart outside of his body.  I could go on, but you know the answer.
1077411
some women that have had this means they can't have children EVER, because they do not have any eggs. I have heard of women that have had that, but you should still see a gyno or a doctor to find out for sure.
322613
Highly unlikely... if you know how natural selection works. The appendix is not really a disadvantage to have so natural selection will never select against it. Just because it's useless doesn't mean it will go away. It's only when it's harms an organism's chance of survival and procreation will it be selected against. Rarely people get appendicitis and even fewer die from appendicitis nowadays.
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You become very unhealthy and fat. If you do not use your muscles they turn into fat. Your heart will become more strained and have to pump faster, which will increase your risk of a heart attack. \n\nAlways exercise, even if it's just using the stairs instead of the lift, it will be so much better for you.
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Interesting.  It is possible that the sweat glands or the left armpit are obstructed, but it is unlikely that this could occur in an entire area of skin.  It is possible to be born without sweat glands in a particular patch of skin or throughout their entire body.  The condition is called Anhidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia
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Absolutely not. Marfan Syndrome is a genetic disorder. Its congenital - you are born with it.\n\nUnless you are talking about giving your unborn child Marfan's due to drinking? Now that is unlikely to happen, but there are cases of spontaneous genetic mutation that cause Marfan's. Usually, however, it is a dominant gene mutation passed on the parent to child. Its rare that it springs up out of the blue...
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Yes...actually the ascending and descending aorta from the heart is slightly larger...the abdominal is just a continuation of that vessel.
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None really. Start taking folic acid pills instead. These help prevent birth defects. They are at walmart and other locations and are rather cheap
920698
You mean, you weren't born with one?  Have you just had an operation?
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Undiagnosed/undetected aorta defect. During a dress rehearsal with friend Henry Winkler, he felt nauciated, feverish and just wanted to lie down for a few minutes, unaware of the health problem he was enduring.
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well it's impossible to make any conclusive statements without knowing the entire case and what exactly was damaged.  if it was intussusception (when one part of the intestine "telescopes" into another causing a blockage of his bowels) and then a ruptured bowel, then this should not really affect his ability to have kids later in life.  I believe if there had been any involvement of his reproductive system the surgeons would have told you.
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collapsed lungs have nothing to do with genetics or relation to someone that had a collapsed lung. They are caused by disease and trauma and thats about it. Yeah sure you have the possiblity of getting sick or getting in a car wreck and getting one that way but it has nothing to do with your mother's first child.
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An aortic aneurysm involves the aorta, one of the large arteries that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. The aorta bulges at the site of the aneurysm like a weak spot on an old worn tire.\n You can read more here\nhttp://www.medicinenet.com/abdominal_aortic_aneurysm/article.htm
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Turner's Syndrome.  Short stature, slow growth, webbed neck, infertility, usually with no puberty, coarctation of the aorta, kidney problems leading to hypertension, osteoporosis.  The vast majority are well within normal in their mental abilities, like the rest of the population but some studies suggest a slightly higher percentage have some problems with visio-spacial orientation type things.\n\nIf they have no heart/great vessel abnormalities or kidney problems, they lead a normal life expectancy and are capable of anything any of the "breeders" are, except reproduction.