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                        Laurie - I am so sorry for your loss.  Although your brother had many tests they didn't seem to do a cardiac  catherization test which might have found the problem.  I had been bothered for several years with intermittant claudication in the legs which caused pain when walking any distance.  In the past few months I was having feelings of nausea.  I was given a stress test on a treadmill and immediately rushed to the cardiac wing.  Following the above test it was found I had four blocked heart arteries and had open heart surgery.  It was also found that I had an aortic abdominal aneurysm.  Surgery was performed last week and interrupted.  Now I'm waiting to heal and face another surgery in six weeks for the aneurysm.  I was one of the lucky to be correctly diagnosed but I'm still not out of the woods.  This might explain what happened to your brother.