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Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner had aneurysm during live performance
Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner suffered a medical emergency during his performance at Louder Than Life last month that led to a 10 ½-hour emergency heart surgery, the musician announced Wednesday.
The 41-year-old said he had "an aortic aneurysm and complete aortic dissection" while on stage on the final day of the rock festival in Louisville in September.
Aortic aneurysms are "balloon-like bulges in the aorta, the large artery that carries blood from the heart through the chest and torso," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Dissections happen when the "force of blood pumping can split the layers of the artery wall, allowing blood to leak in between them."
"As I watch footage from the Louder Than Life Festival in Kentucky, I can see in my face the confusion and anguish I was feeling whilst playing ‘Painkiller’ as my aorta ruptured and started to spill blood into my chest cavity," Faulkner said in a statement.
Thoracic aortic aneurysms are terrible, terrible things. One of my least favorite operations.
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Why isn't he dead?
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27334108/
Of the whole group, 17.6% (27/153) died prior to hospital arrival, whereas the risk of death for patients who arrived alive to a hospital was 21.4% (27/126) within 24 h and 45.2% (57/126) at 30 days.
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@jolly said in Judas Priest!:
Why isn't he dead?
Is that a question related to his aneurysm or his music?
