John Ritter died in 2003 from an aortic dissection, a tear in the body’s main artery CBS via Getty John Ritter’s shocking death on Sept.11, 2003, at the age of 54 broke the hearts of his loved ones ...

John Ritter's widow, Amy Yasbeck, recalled how he was misdiagnosed with a heart attack before dying of an aortic dissection. John Ritter's widow, Amy Yasbeck, is opening up about the actor's final ...

For generations, something troubling seemed to plague the men in John Ritter’s bloodline. “We always heard, ‘Oh those Ritters die of their first and last heart attack,’ ” Amy Yasbeck, the beloved ...

Cuoco’s remembrance connects a formative TV partnership with the aortic-health cause established in Ritter’s name. Her comments revisit a loss that altered both a young actor’s life and the course of ...

UTHealth's Dr. Dianna Milewicz explains how John Ritter's death transformed awareness of aortic disease and why early ...

Kaley Cuoco stepped out Saturday night to pay tribute to her TV dad, John Ritter. She was starring as the television sitcom icon’s daughter on “8 Simple Rules” in 2003 when Ritter suffered a fatal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Ritter's widow, Amy Yasbeck, is opening up about the actor's final hours more than two decades after his death. In September ...