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Non‐syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysm: cellular and molecular insights

The Journal of Pathology Vol. 254 No. 3 pp. 229-238 · Wiley
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AbstractThoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) develops silently and asymptomatically and is a major cause of mortality. TAA prevalence is greatly underestimated, it is usually diagnosed incidentally, and its treatment consists mainly of prophylactic surgery based on the aortic diameter. The lack of effective drugs and biological markers to identify and stratify TAAs by risk before visible symptoms results from scant knowledge of its pathophysiological mechanisms. Here we integrate the structural impairment affecting non‐syndromic non‐familial TAA with the main cellular and molecular changes described so far and consider how these changes are interconnected through specific pathways. The ultimate goal is to define much‐needed novel markers of TAA, and so the potential of previously identified molecules to aid in early diagnosis/prognosis is also discussed. © 2021 The Authors. The Journal of Pathology published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. on behalf of The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
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May 24, 2021
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254(3)
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229-238
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Ariadna Martin‐Blazquez, Angeles Heredero, Gonzalo Aldamiz‐Echevarria, et al. (2021). Non‐syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysm: cellular and molecular insights. The Journal of Pathology, 254(3), 229-238. https://doi.org/10.1002/path.5683
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