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A shattered leg, a blood sample and a discovery that may have saved a family

Mayo Clinic· 1.3M subscribers

10d ago · English audio

On a cold December night more than a decade ago, a snowmobile crash on a rural Iowa road left Chad Rockow with a shattered lower leg — and months of surgeries, setbacks and pain so severe he considered amputation. Nearly 13 years later, he learned the accident had set something else in motion: a Mayo Clinic discovery of a hidden, inherited disease affecting his entire…

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1.6KMedian · 14 videos

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79.8K views ÷ a 1.6K baseline = 49.3×. Compared with 14 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

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