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Familial Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm with Dissection Presenting as Flash Pulmonary Edema in a 26-Year-Old Man
... with thoracic aortic aneurysm and their ...for thoracic aortic aneurysm was present in ...of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections without known vascular connective tissue ...
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Inhibition of the methyltranferase EZH2 improves aortic performance in experimental thoracic aortic aneurysm
... Contractile proteins are vital components of the vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) cytoskeleton and perform kinetic and static regulatory functions in both health and disease. Loss of contractile protein expression has ...
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Original Article Expression of Gax in thoracic aortic aneurysm and its effect on phenotypic transformation of thoracic aortic smooth muscle cells
... ascending aortic wall tis- sue were collected from patients with degener- ative ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm (DATAA) who underwent prosthetic vessel re- placement in the Department of ...
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Long-term result of hybrid procedure for an extensive thoracic aortic aneurysm in Takayasu arteritis: a case report
... extensive thoracic aortic aneurysm who initially underwent a total aortic arch ...stage, thoracic endovascular aortic repair was performed using the elephant trunk graft as the proximal ...
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Endovascular Repair versus Open Repair for Isolated Descending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
... Purpose: To compare the outcomes of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) with those of open repair for descending thoracic aortic aneurysms (DTAA). Mate- rials and Methods: We compared ...
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Thoracic aortic aneurysm development in patients with bicuspid aortic valve: what is the role of endothelial cells?
... Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common type of congenital cardiac ...of thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA). This pathological aortic dilation may result in aortic rupture, which is ...
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FOXE3 mutations predispose to thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections
... ascending thoracic aorta is designed to withstand biomechanical forces from pulsatile ...blood. Thoracic aortic aneurysms and acute aortic dissections (TAADs) occur as a result of genetically ...
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Early recognition of acute thoracic aortic dissection and aneurysm
... of thoracic aortic diseases, however, as patients that presented with acute thoracic aortic disease had an elevated initialed normalization ratio (INR) compared to the ACS ...and ...
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Serum levels of matrix metalloproteinases -1,-2,-3 and -9 in thoracic aortic diseases and acute myocardial ischemia
... The mean values of the four studied metalloproteinases (MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-9) in each group are pre- sented in Table 2. It was observed that levels of MMP-1 and MMP-3 in all groups of patients were significantly ...
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Airway obstruction by a retropharyngeal hematoma secondary to thoracic aortic aneurysm rupture
... normal left ventricular function. A chest X-ray showed an enlarged mediastinal shadow. Contrast-enhanced com- puted tomography revealed the presence of a large cervico- mediastinal hematoma and that the pharynx and ...
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3D geometric reconstruction of thoracic aortic aneurysms
... especially where the circumferential distribution of the thrombus was non-uniform. Local readjustment of the contours was necessary and this led to local differences between the H and HM wall domains; however, for both ...
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Management of acute aortic dissection and thoracic aortic rupture
... B aortic dissection, medical therapy including analgesia, antihypertensive drugs, and bed rest is ...B aortic dissection, such as descending aortic rupture, uncon- trolled pain, and malperfusion of ...
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Transforming growth factor-β and abdominal aortic aneurysms
... Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are common problems in aged people which can be associated with severe complications including aortic rupture and ...of thoracic aortic aneurysms ...decreases ...
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Evaluation of the intraoperative specimens of the thoracic and abdominal aorta
... (55%) aortic aneurysms and 68 thoracic aortic dissections ...(78%) thoracic (TAA) and 18 (22%) abdominal cases ...ascending aortic aneu- rysms, one case of an acute rupture of the ...
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Clinical Experience with the Bentall Procedure: 28 Years
... operation. Four of these patients had Marfan syndrome. One patient required stent graft insertion for descending thoracic aortic dissection, and he also had Marfan syndrome. The Kaplan-Meier analysis for ...
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Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) in traumatic high velocity blunt injury to thoracic aorta
... descending thoracic aorta, ...and thoracic aortic injury, his other injuries included brain contusion, bilateral lung haemothorax, multiple long bone fractures and left conductive hearing ...
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Vascular injuries after blunt chest trauma: diagnosis and management
... angulated aortic arches of young patients. The three thoracic endografts currently available in the US were designed for and approved by the FDA for nonruptured thoracic aortic ...abdominal ...
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Prevalence of Intracranial Aneurysms in Patients with Aortic Aneurysms
... The diagnosis of AA was determined according to previous re- ports for each patient. The definition of an abdominal aortic an- eurysm was a diameter of ⱖ 3.5 cm, and the diameter of a thoracic aortic ...
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Case-report: endovascular treatment of aortic pseudo-aneurysm caused by Fishbone
... inal aortic aneurysm by Parodi in 1991 [15], and applica- tion of stent-graft for thoracic aortic aneurysm by Dake in 1994 [16], intravascular stent graft-graft for aneurysm has been becoming more of ...
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Thoracic Aorta Aneurysm-Endovascular Aortic Repair
... Thoracic aortic aneurysms are most often due to atherosclerosis [1]. Most patients are asymptomatic. Many first become aware of their aneurysms at the time of rupture. Symptoms result from compression of ...
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