Saints' Jon Dorenbos diagnosed with heart condition, will have surgery
New Orleans Saints long snapper Jon Dorenbos has been diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition and placed on the NFI list, coach Sean Payton revealed on Friday.
Dorenbos was discovered to have an aortic aneurysm during a physical exam, and it will require immediate surgery.
Dorenbos was traded from the Eagles (where he spent 11 seasons) to the Saints during the preseason.
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Aortic aneurysms resulted in about 152,000 deaths in 2013, up from 100,000 in 1990, according to a Global Burden of Disease study.
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