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Her cause of death is listed as "hospital-acquired pneumonia and severe aortic stenosis" - the condition the hospital had been attempting to treat.

While autopsy findings indicate Avenatti died of aortic stenosis due to hyperlipidemia, a heart valve disease that was linked to high cholesterol, Pons said she wasn’t aware her aunt had health issues.

At 89, despite aortic stenosis, he had joined a gym in suburban San Diego and was working with two trainers there when he collapsed.

The cause was cardiomyopathy and aortic stenosis, said a son, David Solomon.

Until recently, open heart surgery was the only way that you would treat a condition called aortic stenosis.