Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA)
The role of osteoprotegerin in the development, progression and management of abdominal aortic aneurysms
... aortic aneurysms https://doi.org/10.1515/med -2020-0046 received November 6, 2019; accepted January 13, 2020 Abstract: Osteoprotegerin (OPG) appears to be a very promising marker both in the diagnosis of ...
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Differential regulation of matrix metalloproteinase activities in abdominal aortic aneurysms
... Matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 gelatinolytic activities are differentially regulated in artery homogenates of abdominal aortic aneurysms. The cru- cial role of MMPs in AAA pathogenesis prompted us ...
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Commentary: "Interference of Doxycycline Pretreatment in a Model of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms"
... Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) represents a complex pathophysiological process of weakening and dilatation of the aortic wall associated with atherosclerosis, chronic inflammatory response and ...
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Analysis and computer program for rupture-risk prediction of abdominal aortic aneurysms
... The general consensus is that the peak wall stress is the best indicator of AAA rupture, although the maximum AAA diameter and growth rate as well as aneurysm asym- metry are very important and much easier to measure ...
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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
... Problem Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a segmental, full-thickness dilatation of the abdominal aorta exceeding the normal vessel diameter by 50%, although an aneurysm diameter of ...individual ...
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Small Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
... small abdominal aortic ...small abdominal aor- tic aneurysm, such as the case described in the vi- gnette, the first step is to counsel the patient to stop smoking and to recommend nicotine ...
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Transforming growth factor-β and abdominal aortic aneurysms
... [88] Nabel EG, Shum L, Pompili VJ, Yang ZY, San H, Shu HB, et al. Direct transfer of transforming growth factor beta 1 gene into arteries stimulates fibrocellular hyperplasia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993;90:10759-63. ...
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Cysteine protease activity in the wall of abdominal aortic aneurysms
... aortic aneurysms Said Abisi, MRCS, a Kevin ...of abdominal aortic aneurysms ...the aortic wall of patients with aortic occlusive disease ...
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms and endovascular sealing: deformation and dynamic response
... 4 Russells Hall Hospital, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, UK Abstract Endovascular sealing is a new technique for the repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Commercially available in ...
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Quantifying 18 F-sodium uoride uptake in abdominal aortic aneurysms
... Forsythe et al used the “most diseased segment” TBR max approach to measure 18 F-sodium uoride uptake in abdominal aortic aneurysms. [6] These values demonstrated higher signal for aneurysmal ...
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Trends in management of abdominal aortic aneurysms
... DISCUSSION In this study, we have described our experience over the past decade in managing AAAs with the increasingly fre- quent utilization of endovascular technology. It was not long ago that ⬍10% of elective AAA ...
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Passive biomechanics of abdominal aortic aneurysms
... human. Aneurysms B1 to B10 were reconstructed with the diagnostic software A4research (VASCOPS GmbH, Graz, Austria), which was applied by an operator with engineering background assisted by a radiologist to ensure ...
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Molecular imaging of abdominal aortic aneurysms
... 2017). Abdominal CT without contrast enhancement is equivalent to USS in terms of detecting AAA and is typically recommended in patients who cannot undergo ...assessing aortic size, the presence of ...
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Importance of NLRP3 Inflammasome in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
... aneurysmal aortic enlargement, and preserved medial elastin and smooth muscle cells 74) ...to aortic wall abrogated AAAs in alternative calcium AAA model 78) ...
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The Role of Transglutaminases in the Development of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
... One signalling pathway which appears amenable to modification is the c-Jun N- terminal kinase (JNK) pathway which is stimulated by numerous “stress molecules” including Ang-II, TNF-α and IFN-γ, which have all been ...
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) exhibit characteristics
... which aneurysms occurred (from all mice regardless of AAA type), the mRNA levels of CD3, CD68, and MCP-1 were increased in aortas of both male and female EP4 ⫺/⫺ /LDLR ⫺/⫺ ...When aneurysms of the same ...
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Doxycycline inhibition of proteases and inflammation in abdominal aortic aneurysms
... the aortic wall, 7,8 and that it is thus unlikely that these proteases are directly responsible for the weakening of the aortic ...the aortic wall as ...
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MicroRNA expression signature in human abdominal aortic aneurysms
... control aortic tissue samples (Table 1 and Additional file 1: Table ...infrarenal abdominal aorta samples, but the three up regulated miRNAs failed to replicate (Figure ...
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Fluid-Structure Interaction in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Effect of haematocrit
... Dimensionless time [-] Figure 12. Effect of H t on the surface averaged 𝜎 𝑣𝑀 on the AAA wall. 4.4. WSS in the AAA WSS values vary significantly between the two cases tested and are highly influenced by both the location ...
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Novices may be trained to screen for abdominal aortic aneurysms using ultrasound
... the abdominal aorta and to measure its ...anterior-posterior aortic diameters: a maximal diam- eter in the coronal plane and a suprarenal, mid infrarenal and distal infrarenal diameter in the transverse ...
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