Delayed Presentation of a Giant Ascending Aortic Aneurysm following Aortic Valve Replacement
Case Reports in Medicine, 2009 Giant ascending aortic aneurysm formation following aortic valve replacement is rare. A 28-year-old man who underwent aortic valve replacement with a prosthetic valve for aortic regurgitation secondary to congenital bicuspid aortic valve about 10 years ...
Tugrul Göncü +5 more
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Genes Associated with Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection: 2018 Update and Clinical Implications
Aorta, 2018 Thoracic aortic aneurysms, with an estimated prevalence in the general population of 1%, are potentially lethal, via rupture or dissection. Over the prior two decades, there has been an exponential increase in our understanding of the genetics of ...
Adam J. Brownstein +7 more
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Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Growth: Role of Sex and Aneurysm Etiology
Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017 Background Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) outcomes are worse in women than men, although reasons for sex differences are unknown. Because faster TAA growth is a risk factor for acute aortic syndromes, we sought to determine the role of sex and aneurysm ...
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Renal Infarct After Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Consider in Back Pain Differential [PDF]
, 2020 As hypertension, obesity, and hyperlipidemia become more widespread, the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) has also increased.1 Traditionally those with multiple comorbidities – also those with greatest AAA mortality – were considered too ...
Hackett, Anthony, Liu, Sophia Y.
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Experience of a tutor centric model for sonography training of emergency department registrars in an Australian urban emergency department 2009–2012 [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose: To assess the impact of a regular sonographer proctored training program for emergency medicine trainees in the use of Emergency Department bedside ultrasound Methods: Emergency Department (ED) Registrars in the Swan District Hospital ED were ...
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Surgery of infrarenal inflammatory aneurysm of abdominal aorta infected with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a patient undergoing haemodialysis [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2008 INTRODUCTION Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm accounts for 5% to 10% of all cases of abdominal aortic aneurysm and differs from typical atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysm in many important ways. Although both inflammatory and atherosclerotic
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Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms in Canada: 2020 review and position statement of the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery [PDF]
, 2021 Varun Kapila +4 more
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Mediators of Inflammation, 2017 Medial degeneration associated with thoracic aortic aneurysm and acute aortic dissection was originally described by Erdheim as a noninflammatory lesion related to the loss of smooth muscle cells and elastic fibre fragmentation in the media.
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Hyperhomocysteinemia induced by excessive methionine intake promotes rupture of cerebral aneurysms in ovariectomized rats. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundHyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is associated with inflammation and a rise in the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in the vascular wall.
Hashimoto, Tomoki +9 more
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Simple Renal Cysts as Markers of Thoracic Aortic Disease
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016 BackgroundThoracic aortic aneurysm is usually a clinically silent disease; timely detection is largely dependent upon identification of clinical markers of thoracic aortic disease (TAD); (bicuspid aortic valve, intracranial aortic aneurysm, bovine aortic
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