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Syphilitic aneurysm of the ascending aorta [PDF]
Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, 2011 Syphilitic aortic aneurysm is a rare occurrence in the antibiotic era, making the diagnose assumption even more infrequent. Nonetheless, this pathology can appear and should be suspected in patients with aortic aneurysm. We report a case of a 57-year old patient who presents with neurosyphilis and, in the following study, a large ascending aorta ...
Nelson Paulo +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2018 Disturbed flow has been suggested to contribute to aneurysm susceptibility in bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) patients. Lately, flow has emerged as an important modulator of DNA methylation.
H. Björck +22 more
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The marfan syndrome: Abnormal aortic elastic properties [PDF]
, 1991 Aortic distensibility and aortic stiffness index were measured at the ascending aorta (3 cm above the aortic valve) and the mid-portion of the abdominal aorta from the changes in echocardiographic diameters and pulse pressure in 14 patients with the ...
Boudoulas, Harisios +5 more
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Epithelioid hemangioma of the ascending aorta: A rare case
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2022 Cardiac epithelioid hemangioma is extremely rare. Currently, there are only a few described cases of intraluminal hemangiomas of the aorta and the aortic valve and no described cases with extraluminal epithelioid hemangiomas of the ascending aorta.
Ivan S Murashov +3 more
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Natural History Of Syphilitic Aortitis [PDF]
, 2009 No large studies of cardiovascular syphilis at necropsy have been reported since 1964. We examined at necropsy 90 patients who had characteristic morphologic findings of syphilitic aortitis. None had ever undergone cardiovascular surgery.
Ko, Jong Mi +2 more
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Tuberculous pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2015 Increase in the incidence of drug resistance and association with HIV has led to a resurgence of tuberculosis. However, tubercular arteritis continues to remain a rare entity with a prelidection for the thoracic aorta. We report a tubercular ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm in a patient already on treatment for disseminated tuberculosis who underwent ...
Srinivasan Ramadurai +3 more
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Atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta is an independent predictor of long-term neurologic events and mortality [PDF]
, 1999 OBJECTIVESThis study was undertaken to determine whether atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta is a predictor of long-term neurologic events and mortality.BACKGROUNDAtherosclerosis of the thoracic aorta has been recently considered a significant ...
Barzilai, Benico +5 more
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Inflammatory aneurysm of the ascending aorta [PDF]
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2006 Inflammatory aneurysms of the aorta are usually seen in the infrarenal abdominal aorta and very rarely in the ascending aorta. We present the case of a 76-year-old male with inflammatory aneurysm of the ascending aorta.
Hazim J. Safi +3 more
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Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research, 2016 Synthetic grafts are widely used in cardiac and vascular surgery since the mid-1970s. Despite their general good performance, inability of mimicking the elastomechanical characteristics of the native arterial tissue, and the consequent lack of adequate ...
C. Spadaccio +8 more
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Automatic Segmentation of Thoracic Aorta Segments in Low-Dose Chest CT
, 2018 Morphological analysis and identification of pathologies in the aorta are important for cardiovascular diagnosis and risk assessment in patients. Manual annotation is time-consuming and cumbersome in CT scans acquired without contrast enhancement and ...
de Vos, Bob D. +3 more
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