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"The Difficulties of Diagnosing FMD"

  • WABC-TV
  • (July 06, 2012)

FMD stands for fibromuscular dysplasia, an illness where the arteries to major organs such as the brain or the kidneys can scar over in some cases and tear in other. It can strike at any age and affects mainly women in the prime of their life. "It’s not really a rare disease. It’s a rarely diagnosed disease and there are a large number of people that have this that have no symptoms whatsoever," said Dr. Jeffrey Olin from The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Learn more