CLEVELAND, Ohio — Tom had been keeping a close eye on his heart for years, and for good reason.
The 70-year-old Macedonia resident has been a University Hospitals patient for the better part of three decades, relocating from Michigan to Northeast Ohio for work. After 25 years in sales and marketing, he called it a day last year and finally settled into retirement. Through it all, his health was a priority and something he couldn’t afford to neglect.
During the final years of his career, Tom was under the watchful care of Dr. Emil Hayek because of a slightly enlarged aorta — the body’s main artery, which carries blood from the heart to every organ and limb. The condition certainly required monitoring, though it had not yet reached a critical threshold…