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Statins in Aortic Disease

Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2018
Background: Numerous studies indicate that statins have multiple beneficial actions (known as ‘pleiotropic actions') on cardiovascular system through the improvement of endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, oxidative stress, excessive arterial thrombosis, and stabilization of the atherosclerotic plaque.
Tsigkou, V., Siasos, G., Bletsa, E., Panoilia, M.-P., Papastavrou, A., Kokosias, G., Oikonomou, E., Zaromitidou, M., Vavuranakis, M., Stefanadis, C., Tousoulis, D.   +10 more
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Downregulated serum 14, 15-epoxyeicosatrienoic acid is associated with abdominal aortic calcification in patients with primary aldosteronism [PDF]

, 2018
Patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) have increased risk of target-organ damage, among which vascular calcification is an important indicator of cardiovascular mortality.
Gao, Jingwei, He, Wanbing, Huang, Hui, Lin, Ying, Liu, Pinming, Shi, Guangzi, Touyz, Rhian M., Yan, Li, Zhang, Shaoling   +8 more
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Mixed Valvular Disease Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Quantification and Systematic Differentiation Using Clinical Measurements and Image-Based Patient‐Specific In Silico Modeling [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Mixed valvular disease (MVD), mitral regurgitation (MR) from pre‐existing disease in conjunction with paravalvular leak (PVL) following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), is one of the most important stimuli for left ventricle (LV)
Amrute, Junedh M., Ben-Assa, Eyal, Blanke, Philipp, Brown, Jonathan, de la Torre Hernandez, Jose M., Edelman, Elazer R., Garcia Camarero, Tamara, Keshavarz-Motamed, Zahra, Khodaei, Seyedvahid, Lee, Suk Joon, Leipsic, Jonathon, Rikhtegar Nezami, Farhad, Ruano Calvo, Javier, Sellers, Stephanie   +13 more
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HDAC9 is implicated in atherosclerotic aortic calcification and affects vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype. [PDF]

, 2019
Aortic calcification is an important independent predictor of future cardiovascular events. We performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis to determine SNPs associated with the extent of abdominal aortic calcification (n = 9,417) or descending ...
Bagchi, Aranya, Barnes, Hanna J, Bloch, Donald B, Bowden, Donald W, Budoff, Matthew, Buswell, Mary D, Buys, Emmanuel S, Campbell, Catherine Y, Criqui, Michael H, Debette, Stephanie, Erbel, Raimund, Feitosa, Mary F, Franceschini, Nora, Freedman, Barry I, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Harris, Tamara, Hoffmann, Udo, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Johnson, Andrew D, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Kälsch, Hagen, Lindsay, Mark E, Lino Cardenas, Christian L, Lu, Lingyi, Malhotra, Rajeev, Mauer, Andreas C, Moebus, Susanne, Nicholson, Christopher J, Nigwekar, Sagar U, Nöthen, Markus M, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Pechlivanis, Sonali, Post, Wendy S, Rhee, David K, Rotter, Jerome I, Rourke, Caitlin O', Shelton, Georgia, Sigurdsson, Sigurdur, Sigurslid, Haakon H, Slocum, Charles, Smith, Albert V, Song, Ci, Thanassoulis, George, Wang, Judy, Wong, Quenna, Wunderer, Florian, Yao, Jie, Zapol, Warren M, Zhang, Xiaoling   +49 more
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A clinical case of secondary hypertension in a young woman with coarctation of the aorta

Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2022
The article presents a case of diagnosis and treatment of coarctation of the aorta in a 20-year-old woman, who previously received follow-up care with the diagnosis of hypertension.
M. A. Manukyan, A. Yu. Falkovskaya, V. F. Mordovin, V. V. Saushkin, T. R. Ryabova   +4 more
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Protective Effect on Spinal Cord Injury of Prophylactic Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage in Extensive Aortic Arch Repair for Type A Aortic Dissection: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Cerebrospinal fluid drainage (CSFD) is commonly used to manage spinal cord injury (SCI) after aortic surgery. However, there is still limited evidence regarding its effectiveness in patients with type A aortic dissection undergoing total arch ...
Chenyu Zhou, Bin Hou, Kai Zhang, Shiqi Gao, Fangfang Cao, Yumeng Ji, Enzehua Xie, Jiawei Qiu, Juntao Qiu, Cuntao Yu   +9 more
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Increased risk for the development of postoperative severe hypoxemia in obese women with acute type a aortic dissection

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2019
Background The purpose of this study is to identify the risk factors for postoperative severe hypoxemia after surgery for acute type A aortic dissection.
Ming Gong, Zining Wu, Shijun Xu, Lei Li, Xiaolong Wang, Xinliang Guan, Hongjia Zhang   +6 more
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Retinal micro-vascular and aortic macro-vascular changes in postmenopausal women with primary hyperparathyroidism [PDF]

, 2018
Aim of the study was to evaluate the micro and macro-vascular changes in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) compared to controls. 30 postmenopausal PHPT women (15 hypertensive and 15 normotensive) and 30 normotensive controls underwent ...
Biamonte, Federica, Cipriani, Cristiana, Colangelo, Luciano, Curione, Mario, Minisola, Salvatore, Parravano, Mariacristina, Pepe, Jessica, Tedeschi, Massimiliano, Varano, Monica   +8 more
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Cardiopulmonary bypass time is an independent risk factor for acute kidney injury in emergent thoracic aortic surgery: a retrospective cohort study

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2019
Background Thoracic aortic surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass are both associated with development of postoperative acute kidney injury. In this study, we undertook to investigate the relationship between cardiopulmonary bypass time and postoperative ...
Shijun Xu, Jie Liu, Lei Li, Zining Wu, Jiachen Li, Yongmin Liu, Junming Zhu, Lizhong Sun, Xinliang Guan, Ming Gong, Hongjia Zhang   +10 more
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Health research improves healthcare: now we have the evidence and the chance to help the WHO spread such benefits globally [PDF]

, 2015
There has been a dramatic increase in the body of evidence demonstrating the benefits that come from health research. In 2014, the funding bodies for higher education in the UK conducted an assessment of research using an approach termed the Research ...
A Ager, AJ Young, B Yazdizadeh, EL Chaikof, G Cohen, JS Lindholt, M Buxton, Miguel A González-Block, P Ongolo-Zogo, PE Norman, PR Hunter, RAP Scott, S Cabellon, SR Hanney, SR Hanney, Stephen R Hanney, T Adam, The World Health Organization, World Health Organization   +18 more
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