Heritable disorders predisposing to aortic dissection

TG Gleason - Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2005 - Elsevier
Heritable disorders of connective tissue often predispose patients to aortic pathology and in
particular aortic dissection. The Marfan syndrome, vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome …

The pathogenesis of spontaneous arterial dissection.

MJ Davies, T Treasure, PD Richardson - Heart, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pathologists and surgeons recognise the presence of an intimal tear as a necessary
component of aortic dissection as they see it in the postmortem room or operating the-atre …

Biomechanics and pathobiology of aortic aneurysms

JA Phillippi, S Pasta, DA Vorp - Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of …, 2011 - Springer
Biomechanical weakening of the aorta leads to aneurysm formation and/or dissection and
total biomechanical failure results in rupture, which is often fatal. The most common …

[HTML][HTML] Using the descending aortic wall thickness measured in transesophageal echocardiography as a risk marker for aortic dissection

Z Fanari, S Hammami, MB Hammami… - The European journal …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective The aim of this study is to estimate whether aortic wall thickness is increased in
patients with Aortic dissection (AD) compared to low risk control group and can be used in …